The effectiveness of an integrated transdiagnostic treatment protocol on anxiety and cognitive emotion regulation in anxious adolescents

Background: Adolescent is the growth gate for the emergence of emotional disorders. The purpose of the present study is the efficacy of unified protocol of transdiagnostic treatment on emotional inhibition and cognitive reassessment in anxious Adolescent. Methodology: The present study is considered Quasi-Experimental Research and includes the pretest and posttest with control group. At first the clinical diagnostic interview was applied for screening Adolescent with anxiety issued and also Achenbach and Rescorla Questionnaire was used. Afterwards, twenty female students were chosen with clinical anxiety in Tehran during the academic year ۲۰۱۹-۲۰۲۰ randomly with convenience sampling. They were randomly divided into two groups of ten people: experimental group and control group. Then, they were evaluated with the help of Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire of Gross and John (۲۰۰۳) and also Spence Children's Anxiety Scale. The experimental group received fifteen sessions of unified protocol of transdiagnostic treatment each included ۴۵ minutes in the form of online and eight offline tutorial videos and again both groups answered posttest questionnaires. The data was analyzed with ANCOVA and MANCOVA.Results: There is a significant difference between the experimental group and control group in anxiety and cognitive emotion regulation p≤۰.۰۱ and unified protocol of transdiagnostic treatment could reduce significantly anxiety among teens and increase significantly the application of cognitive reassessment, however, there is no significant effect of reducing emotional inhibition among them.Conclusion: Receiving management skill training and excitement regulation would improve cognitive emotion regulation skill and decrease anxiety problems.

کلیدواژه ها:

transdiagnostic treatment ، cognitive emotion regulation ، anxiety ، Adolescent