Abstract:
The present study aims at investigating the effectiveness of teaching dialectical behavior therapy skills on cognitive emotion regulation of opium addicts in detoxification stage. The study makes use of a quasi-experimental method. The study subjects have been selected based on a purposive method and they were randomly assigned to two intervention and control groups: both of the groups were subjected to tests at the same time and before the independent variable was implemented; afterwards, the groups were again tested after the independent variable was implemented on the intervention group as well as in a 3-month follow-up period. The study population was comprised of all male addicts who had been passing detoxification stage in Boghrat substance abuse clinic, in the city of Tehran in 2015-2016. The current research paper takes advantage of a purposive sampling method and uses diagnostic interviews by the author through utilizing the criteria outlined in DSM-5 and also through inquiring ideas and notions from a psychotherapist as a result of which 34 individuals were selected and eventually the study was completed with 27 individuals as the study sample volume; their information was assessed by means of Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ). The results obtained by the use of descriptive statistics (statistical indices such as frequency, percentage, mean) and inferential statistics (covariance analysis) indicated that teaching dialectical behavior therapy skills is effective on the cognitive emotion regulation of the addicts in their detoxification phase.
Machine summary:
The results obtained by the use of descriptive statistics (statistical indices such as frequency, percentage, mean) and inferential statistics (covariance analysis) indicated that teaching dialectical behavior therapy skills is effective on the cognitive emotion regulation of the addicts in their detoxification phase.
To investigate the hypothesis and evaluate the effect of teaching dialectical behavior therapy skills on cognitive emotion regulation of the opium addicts passing their detoxification stage, there was made use of multivariate covariance analysis because it was found out that its entire assumptions hold true.
This way, the null hypothesis is rejected and it is made clear that the amounts of the dependent variables (self-blame,a cceptance, rumination, positive refocusing, refocus on planning, positive reappraisal, putting into perspective, catastrophizing and other-blame) are influenced by the independent variable (teaching dialectical behavior therapy skills) through an adjustment made in the pretest effect.
Table 5: results of one-way covariance analysis in MANCOVA context of the follow-up test (self-blame, acceptance, rumination, positive refocusing, refocus on planning, positive reappraisal, putting into perspective, catastrophizing and other-blame) for both the experimental and control groups after adjusting the study sample volume’s pretest scores.
Study Hypothesis Test Results: Teaching dialectical behvaior therapy skills is effective on cognitive emotion regulation of the addicts pasing their opiate drugs detoxification stage.
After the survey of the abovementioned hypothesis, the null hypothesis was rejected based on the results and it was ascertained that the amounts of the dependent variables (self-blame, acceptance, positive refocusing, refocus on planning, positive reappraisal, putting into perspective, catastrophizing and other-blame) have been influenced subject to the independent variable (teaching dialectical behavior therapy skills) through adjustments made in the pretest effects.