Comparison of the Effectiveness of Emotion-Focused Therapy With and Without Emotion-Focused Family Therapy on Emotion Processing, Basic Psychological Needs, and Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression in Adolescents

https://www.sid.ir/paper/1664106/faConsidering the severe psychological changes during adolescence and their impact on mental health, the present study aimed to examine the effectivenessEmotion-focused therapy with and withoutEmotion-focused family therapy onemotion processing,basic psychological needs,anxiety, anddepression in adolescents. Method: The present study was quasi-experimental, with a pretest and posttest design and a two-month follow-up. The statistical population included 12- to 18-year-old girls withdepression andanxiety problems. Twenty-six participants were selected using convenience sampling and randomly assigned to two groups of 13. One group received 16 sessions ofemotion-focused therapy, and the other group received 16 sessions ofemotion-focused therapy along withemotion-focused family therapy. Data were collected using scales ofemotion processing by Baker (EPS-25),basic psychological needs by Deci and Ryan (BNSG-S), and the Depression and Anxiety Symptomdepression andanxiety questionnaire (21-DASS) at pretest, the eighth session, immediately after the intervention, and two months after the intervention, and were analyzed using multivariate repeated-measures analysis of variance, Bonferroni post hoc tests, and SPSS-26 software. Findings: The results showed significant differences over time in both interventions inanxiety,depression,basic psychological needs, andemotion processing (P = < 0.001). In addition, the two interventions differed significantly in terms of effectiveness. Conclusion: Despite the effectiveness of both interventions, the group receivingemotion-focused family therapy showed greater reductions inanxiety,depression, andemotion processing and greater increases inbasic psychological needs.