December 21, 2024
Afsaneh Moradi

Afsaneh Moradi

Academic Rank: Assistant professor
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Degree: Ph.D in psychology
Phone: 077
Faculty: Faculty of Humanities

Research

Title
Comparison of the effectiveness of mindfulness therapy and continuous therapy experience in improving medicine and reducing the clinical symptoms of sexually affected adolescents: a single-subject study
Type Thesis
Keywords
اختلال استرس پس از سانحه، تاب آوري، ذهن آگاهي، كودكان، مواجهه درماني مداوم
Researchers shekofe mottaghi (Primary advisor) , Afsaneh Moradi (Primary advisor)

Abstract

Post-traumatic stress disorder is a severe psychological disorder, which arises by undergoing a stressful and traumatic event. The present study aimed at comparing the efficiency of mindfulness-based therapy and continuous exposure therapy to increase resiliency and reduce clinical symptoms of sexually affected adolescents .The research design was a single subject with a follow-up period. The statistical population of the study included all 8 to 18-year-old girls with post-traumatic stress disorder due to sexual harassment in Izeh city who referred to 2020 went to the social emergency center. 4 of them were selected through purposive sampling. Subjects were evaluated in three stages of baseline, intervention and one-month following the treatment by the PTSD Symptom Scale (2018) and the Connor and Davidson questionnaire (2003). The intervention was performed separately for both treatments (mindfulness-based therapy: 8 sessions, continuous exposure therapy: 10 sessions). Findings proved that at the beginning of the intervention, all four subjects showed a decreasing and improving process in the scores of post-traumatic stress disorder syndrome, and an increasing and improving process in the scores of Connor and Davidson resilience scales. Besides, comparing the effectiveness of therapies showed that mindfulness-based therapy was more effective in reducing the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder than continuous exposure therapy; and resiliency increased in subjects of continuous exposure therapy more than in subjects of mindfulness-based therapy. Subjects preserved these results for up to one month following the treatment. Based on the findings of the study, it is recommended that therapists in the field of children and adolescents use mindfulness and continuous exposure therapies to increase resiliency and improve stress-made symptoms to achieve more effectiveness. These findings offer significant implications for training and promoting children's mental health