Mina Zamani; Nemat Sotode asl; Shahrokh Makvand hoseini; Parviz Sabahi
Abstract
Purpose: This study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of schema therapy with cognitive ,experimental , and behavioral techniques on the clinical syndrome with borderline personality disorder (BPD).Methods: This was a full factorial designed experiment with a pre-test and post-test design with ...
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Purpose: This study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of schema therapy with cognitive ,experimental , and behavioral techniques on the clinical syndrome with borderline personality disorder (BPD).Methods: This was a full factorial designed experiment with a pre-test and post-test design with control group and follow-up two month. The statistical population was all female adolescent in the age range of 15 to 17 and with borderline personality disorder symptoms referred to public-affiliated Peyvand clinic of Bojnourd city in year 2020-2021. In this study, 40 adolescent with borderline personality disorder symptoms by random sampling were considered as the sample size in three experimental group (10 people in each group) and one control group (10 people). The experimental groups underwent schema therapy (20 sessions 90 minutes), but the control group received no training and remained in the waiting list. To collect data borderline personality features scale for children (BPFS-C) of Crick and et al (2005). Data analysis was performed using SPSS-24 software in two sections: descriptive and inferential (analysis of variance with repeated measures and Bonferroni).Results: The results indicated that schema therapy with cognitive , experimental ,and behavioral techniques in post-test and follow up had a significant effect on decrease clinical syndrome of adolescent the dimentions of pseudobulbar affect (F=30/653;P=0/001),identity problems (F=35/302 ;P=0/001) ,negative relationships (F=19.359 ; p=0/001) ,self cutting (F=9/723 ; P=0/001) and that this effect was stable in the follow_up phase (p<0.05).Conclusions: According to the results of the present study, it can be said that the schema therapy can be used as a treatment method to decrease clinical syndrome adolescent girls with borderline personality disorder symptoms in clinical centers.
