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Aim and Background: There are various methods for treatment of depression. This study was aimed to examine and compare the efficacy of three therapeutic techniques namely group cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy, drug therapy with fluoxetin and drug- therapy with the herbal medicine named hypiran in treatment of depression in women. Method and Materials: In an experimental study, a total number of 45 female patients with major depression were randomly selected. They had been already screened with the depression-measurement questionnaire and further diagnosed by a psychiatrist to suffer from major depression.&nbsp; Patients&nbsp; were assigned to three experimental groups namely cognitive- behavioral , Fluoxetin and Hypiran groups. The three groups were assessed both before and after the intervention, and&nbsp; after the follow up period as well. Data were analyzied using one-way ANOVA, ANCOVA and post- hoc tests. Findings: Comparing changes in the mean scores, there was found significant differences between the efficacy of the three therapeutic techniques (P < 0.01). Schefe&rsquo;s test also revealed that group cognitive behavioral therapy was more effective than Hypiran (P < 0.01). The follow-up assessments showed that the efficacy of the therapeutic techniques were still in force even after 100 days. Of course significant differences were found between the perseverance of efficacies of the different therapeutic techniques (P < 0.01). Conclusions: All the three mentioned therapeutic techniques were proved effective in treatment of depression. Cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy was found to be more effctive than hypiran in the post intervention phase and than the both other techniques in the follow-up assessment.

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Aim and Background:Increasing of being responsive to the present treatments including cognitive-behavioral therapy is the priority of clinical research and motivational intervening is considered as a hopeful intervention.The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of motivational interviewing on the severity of symptoms of patients with obsessive &ndash; compulsive disorder. Methods and Materials: This research is a clinical trial study. Pre-test, post-test with a control group were done &nbsp;on&nbsp; 40 people suffering from &nbsp;OCD in 2009. The subjects were selected by convenience sampling and were randomly classified into the experimental group (No.=20) and the control group (No.=20). The intervention consisting of ten sessions of group Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and motivational interviewing was given to the experimental group . The data obtained by Yale &ndash; Brown Obsessive&ndash; Compulsive Scale &nbsp;and Sheehan Disability Scale was analyzed by statistical tests of repeated measures &nbsp;analysis and t-test. Findings: The results revealed that the average of Yale - Browen score of the intensity of Obsessive&ndash; Compulsive symptoms in pre-intervention, post-intervention and follow-up stages were 29.64 , 19.92&nbsp; , 20 in the control group and 34.58 , 17.23 , 19.35 in the experimental group respectively.The variance analysis&nbsp; test repeated measures showed that after the intervention also there was no significant difference between the two groups (p = 0.06) but the decrease in the intensity of OCD symptoms in the experimental group was more than the control group( p = 0.0001) and&nbsp; this decrease continued until the follow-up. Conclusion: Combining group motivational interviewing with cognitive-behavioral therapy is an effective technique in decreasing the severity of the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder and eventually decreasing the disability produced by the symptoms.

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Aim and Background: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic autoimmune disease usually associated with high levels of pain and impairment in different systems, producing high levels of stress in patients who suffer from it. The purpose of this study was to consider the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral stress management (CBSM) therapy on stress of female patients with SLE. Methods and Materials: This was an experimental study using randomized pre-, post- and follow-up tests. Twenty-four female patients over 18 years of age, already diagnosed with SLE, were randomly selected and assigned to two groups. All subjects completed the Cohen Perceived Stress Scale before and after the intervention as well as during the follow-up period. Eight sessions of CBSM group therapy were directed for the intervention group. Meanwhile both groups were kept under their routine medical treatments. Data was analyzed using ANCOVA. Findings: Data analysis showed that the mean score of stress in the intervention group was significantly lower than the control group in post-test (P < 0.001) and the follow-up period (P < 0.001). Conclusions: The results demonstrated the effectiveness of CBSM group therapy on the stress of female patients with SLE.

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Aim and Background: Anxiety is a common psychiatric problem among adolescents. The present study was carried out to examine the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral group therapy (CBGT) based on Kendall&rsquo;s Coping Cat model on reducing anxiety among female adolescent students of Khorram Abad. Methods and Materials: This was an experimental study with a one-month follow-up period. It used simple random sampling to select 30 subjects from 376 students aging 11-13 who were found to have high levels of anxiety based on the Spence Children Anxiety Scale (SCAS). Participants were randomly assigned into two groups of experimental and control. Then, the experimental group attended CBGT based on Kendall&rsquo;s Coping Cat. Finally, both groups were evaluated again using SCAS. The results were analyzed by analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). Findings: ANCOVA revealed a significant difference between SCAS post-test scores of the experimental and control groups which remained stable one month after the end of treatment. Conclusions: Cognitive-behavioral group therapy based on Kendall&rsquo;s Coping Cat model can reduce anxiety in Iranian female adolescent students.

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Aim and Background: Insomnia, one of the prevalent disorders, in many cases is considered as a sign associated with physical and mental disorders. The present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of Cognitive-Behavioral Group Therapy on these symptoms among male prisoners. Methods and Materials: subjects of this experimental study were 28 male prisoners in central prison of Shiraz who were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The experimental group participated in 9 cognitive behavioral group therapy sessions, while the control group received no treatment. The participants completed Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, Beck Depression Inventory, and Beck Anxiety Inventory. Data was analyzed using Analysis of Covariance. Results: High percentage of prisoners reported insomnia symptoms. Moreover, the results of Analysis of Covariance showed that cognitive behavioral group therapy could decrease insomnia symptoms in post-test (p<0.01) and follow-up (p<0.05) stages. Conclusion: Taking into account the high prevalence of insomnia among prisoners and effectiveness of Cognitive-Behavioral Group Therapy on its symptoms, it seems necessary to carry out more research and provide psychological services to decrease insomnia symptoms and its underlying factors.

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Aim and Background: The present study aimed to determine the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral stress management on reducing anxiety, stress, and depression symptoms in head-family women under the coverage of Imam Khomeini&#039;s Relief Committee. Methods and Materials: Forty subjects were selected using simple random sampling method and assigned into experimental and control groups. With a pre-test and post-test control group design, the subjects in the intervention group underwent 10 sessions of cognitive-behavioral stress management training, but the control group did not. Both groups were evaluated using depression, anxiety, and stress scale in two assessment phases, and data were analyzed by multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA). Findings: Findings showed that there was no statistically significant difference between the two groups in pretest phase, but cognitive-behavioral stress management training, significantly decreased depression, anxiety, and stress scores in the experimental group. Conclusions: The cognitive behavioral stress management training could be an intervention program in target groups and general population under the coverage of Imam Khomeini&#039;s Relief Committee counseling centers, and with reducing depression, anxiety, and stress symptoms led to reduction in client&rsquo;s problems and enhancing productivity.

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Aim and background: Researches in recent decades on the effect of attachment-based on relationship and parenting type of child&rsquo;s caregiver have shown that parents&rsquo; parenting style and the quality of mother-child relationship have significant role in child&rsquo; anxiety formation .The present study aimed to review the effect of cognitive-behavioral education of mother-child relationship on reducing symptoms in children&#039;s obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Method and Materials: In a clinical trial, 30 mothers of 6 to 12-year-old children who have been diagnosed as OCD through the interview of psychotherapist and based on the criteria of diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, 4 th edition, text revision (DSM-IV-TR), were randomly selected divided into two experimental and control groups. Without the presence of children, the mothers in the intervention group participated in twelve 120-minute sessions of cognitive-behavioral education. OCD Yale-Brown test was used to collect the data. Findings: The phases of pre-test, post-test, and follow-up showed a statistically significant difference for the intervention group. Accordingly, obsessive thought and behaviors are obvious in the intervention group for following domains: compulsive in resistance, discomfort and interference domains. Conclusions: In whole mentioned domains, cognitive-behavioral education of mother-child relation positively affected obsessive-compulsive symptoms of children.

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Abstract Aim and Background: The research purpose is to assess the Efficacy of Emotion Regulation on the Well-Being of Epileptic Girls (14-20) in Isfahan. Methods and Materials: In order to administer this study, 30 epileptic adolescence girls were selected from 14-20 years population of epileptic adolescence girls Isfahan city in 2012 via sampling available method and assigned randomly to experimental and control group (each group consist of 15 adolescence). The intervention was emotion regulation . Training based on Boston Program University. The instruments were psychological Well-Being (Ryff) Questionnaire And the Researcher-Made Questionnaire . Findings: Data was analyzed by Multivariate Covariance analysis of variance. Findings indicate that emotional regulation effects on the Well-Being of epileptic girls in pre and post test and follow-up (P<0 . 019). Also mean scores of Self Acceptance(P<0 . 049) in the post test was significantly higher in the experimental group than in the control group. The results also showed that the mean scores of positive relations with others (P<0 . 045), Self- Acceptance (P<0 . 049), purpose in life (p<0 . 046) in the follow - up was significantly higher in the experimental group than in the control group. Conclusions: The results showed that emotional regulation effects on the Well –Being of epileptic girls. The treatment effect was sustained during the follow-up

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Abstract Aim and Background: The breast cancer is the most significant worrisome factor in the women&#039;s health, since it is the most prevalent cancer among women and the second cause of death from the cancer after lung cancer. The present study was conducted in order to investigate the effectiveness of stress management therapy through cognitive-behavioral method in women suffering from breast cancer. Methods and Materials: This study was administered in the form of a group therapy design. It was a semi-experimental research. The statistical population was all the women with breast cancer referring to Saiedo-Shohada hospital in Isfahan among whom 20 women with breast cancer having entrance criteria were put randomly into experimental group and waiting list (control group). The experimental group received therapeutic interventions during 10 sessions while the control group received no intervention. In order to collect data the questionnaires of revised injuries effect scale (IES-R), Beck anxiety, and a month follow up were applied. Findings: All participants in the pretest, posttest and follow up filled up the questionnaires. The data were analyzed through repeated measure. the amount of effect coefficient showed a significant decrease in the scores of anxiety, intrusive thoughts, avoidance, hyper-arousal, in the participants. Conclusions These primary findings&nbsp; from the role of cognitive-behavioral stress management therapy supports&nbsp; the decease of the signs of anxiety, intrusive thoughts, avoidance, hyper-arousal, of the patients suffering from breast cancer in the beginning stages

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Aim and Background: The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of stress management cognitive-behavioral therapy on psychological and physiological indexes of patients that volunteer to Cesarean surgery. Methods and Materials: The design of research was quasi-experimental with pre- and post-test design and control group. 26 subjects were selected of the list of elective surgery in March 2009 and assigned randomly to experimental and control groups (n = 13 for each one). Stress management intervention was conducted in experimental group and no intervention in was done in control group. Spilberger Inventory of Anxiety and Beck Depression Inventory were completed and patients&rsquo; blood pressure and pain were measured. Data were analyzed using ANCOVA test. Findings: Mean scores of anxiety, depression, pain, blood pressure and pulse rate had significant reduction among the experimental group (P < 0.05). Conclusions: Stress management cognitive-behavior intervention can be a selective psychotherapy in patients volunteer to Cesarean surgery; but in this therapy, in addition to automatic thoughts, we should also consider to core beliefs and underlying assumptions to enhance the efficacy of intervention.

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Aim and Background: Marital quality of couples is the most important aspect of families with optimal performance. The purpose of the present study was to compare the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral couple therapy (CBCT) and couple therapy based on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) on the marital quality of conflicting couples. Methods and Materials: This quasi-experiment was conducted with a pretest-posttest design and control group. The statistical population of the study included all conflicting couples referring to consultation centers in the city of Isfahan, Iran, in 2016. The subjects (90 couples) were selected through voluntary sampling and were divided into CBCT (30 individuals), ACT (30 individuals), and control groups (30 individuals). The two experimental groups received 12 sessions of therapy (once a week). The data collection tools were a demographic characteristics form and the Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale (RDAS). Data were analyzed using ANCOVA in SPSS software. Findings: CBCT and ACT made significant changes in marital quality at the posttest stage (P < 0.05). Furthermore, the results of the Bonferroni post hoc test implied that there was no significant difference between the effectiveness of CBCT and ACT on the couples’ marital quality (P > 0.05). Conclusions: According to the results of the study, both CBCT and ACT caused significant changes in marital quality and there was no significant difference between the effectiveness of these two therapeutic methods. Thus, the results of this study provide empirical support for increase in marital quality through both therapies.

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Aim and Background: Attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the most common behavioral problem that causes hyperactivity, attention deficits, academic failure, and emotional and behavioral problems in preschool and elementary school. The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of parent-based cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) on overweight and self-esteem in 6- to 11-year-old obese children with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder in Isfahan City, Iran. Methods and Materials: This quasi-experimental study was done on 40 children aged 6 to 11 years with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder and overweight or obesity (above the 85th percentile in weight for age, height, and sex diagram) referred to Isfahan child and adolescent psychiatric clinic of Ali Asghar hospital in 2015. For 20 subjects only attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder treatment was applied and they received no other intervention; but the others in experimental group participated in cognitive behavioral therapy sessions. Analysis tools were Coppersmith Self-Esteem Scale and the body mass index. Data were analyzed using analysis of variance with repeated measures. Findings: Cognitive-behavioral therapy by teaching parents had a significant effect on overweight in obese children with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder at post-test and follow-up. It had a significant effect on self-esteem among the obese children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder at post-test, too (P < 0.001). Conclusions: Parents-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy can be considered as a complementary treatment for reducing psychological symptoms and body mass index and also increasing self-esteem in obese children with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder.

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Aim and Background: Aggression and low level of mood states are the problems which female students with depression suffer from them. Therefore, the aim of this study was to compare the effect of Positive Mindfulness Therapy (PMT), Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) on aggression and mood states in female students with depression. Methods and Materials: The research method was semi-experimental with pretest-posttest and control group. Out of 300 female high school students in Nain City in 2017, 60 participants were selected using purposeful method based on entry and exit criteria and randomly assigned into four groups (control, PMT, MBCT and CBT). To measure the dependent variables, the Aggression Questionnaire (AQ) and Brunel Mood Scale (BRUMS) were used. The group of PMT, MBCT and CBT received 12 sessions of treatment and the control group did not receive any treatment. The data were analyzed with the use of analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). Findings: Based on the results of ANCOVA, all three treatments had a significant effect on decrease of aggression and increase of mood states (p<0.01). Also, the effect of PMT was more than MBCT and CBT on reducing aggression (p<0.01), but the effect of three types of treatment on mood states was similar (p>0.05). Conclusions: Considering the more powerful effect of PMT compared to other two treatments in decreasing aggression and with the equal effects of three types of treatment on mood states, the use of these treatments is suggested for girl students with depression.

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Aim and Background: Breast cancer, one of the most important cancers, creates many challenges for women who are suffering from it. The aim of present study the study of the efficacy of Comparison of The effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral group therapy and acceptance and commitment group therapy on Self-efficacy in breast cancer patients. Methods and Materials: In a semi experimental study, pre-test, post-test and follow-up with the control group, 60 subjects who were admitted to the study were selected by available sampling method. The subjects were matched on demographic factors and divided in 3 groups of 20 persons. For the group based on acceptance and commitment, 8 training sessions were held and 10 training sessions were held for the group based on cognitive-behavioral therapy, while no intervention was provided for the control group. At the end of the training sessions, The self-efficacy scale (post-test) was performed in each of the 3 groups. Also, 2 months after treatment, 3 groups completed again The self-efficacy scale in the follow up phase. Data analysis was performed using the Repeated Measurement Test and Multivariate Covariance Analysis. Findings: The results demonstrated that both group therapies Improve self-efficacy among patients (P>0.001). Also, the results showed that there is no significant difference between two methods in Improve self-efficacy in patients with breast cancer. (P>0.05) Conclusions: Acceptance and commitment therapy and cognitive - behavioral therapy are effective in Improve self-efficacy in patients with breast cancer.

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Aim and Background: Affective-sexual needs are as important motivational forces that have a vital role in the stability and enhancing of quality of marital life. Then the main goal of the current research was the comparison of the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral couple therapy (CBCT) and acceptance commitment therapy (ACT) approaches on enhancing affective-sexual needs among Nonclinical Couples in Bandar Abbas city, Iran.
Methods and Materials: The research design was semi-experimental design with pretest, posttest, and follow up. The statistical population of this study includes of nonclinical couples that participated in the training course about life skills and cyberspace. 48 subjects were selected through a convenient sampling method and randomly assigned to two groups of interventions, CBCT and ACT, and one control group. Each couple in intervention groups received 12 sessions and 90 minutes of therapy. Affective-Sexual Needs of Iranian Couples scale (2020) used for gathering data and analysis of variance with repeated measures tests used for analyzing data by using SPSS 19 software.
Findings: The result showed that both CBCT and ACT interventions were effective to enhance affective-sexual couple's needs. Moreover, comparing the effectiveness of CBCT and ACT approaches showed that the ACT approach was more effective in enhancing of three dimensions of affective-sexual couple's needs include avoiding discouraging behaviors, affection-sexual needs, physical-sexual needs.
Conclusions: It seems the implementation of CBCT and ACT interventions are useful for enhancing affective-sexual couple's needs. This could influence other dimensions of marital life such as marital satisfaction and marital quality.

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Aim and Background: Binge eating disorder as a psychological disorder commonly leads to confusion and problems for people.  A problem People with binge eating disorder is low capacity of distress tolerance, and this increases the tendency of an individual to Binge eating. This study aimed to compare the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy and self-healing therapy on Distress tolerance in women with bulimia nervosa.
Methods and Materials: This study was quasi-experimental (pre-test post-test with the control group). The statistical population of the present study included all women with bulimia nervosa who were referred to specialists and medical centers in Isfahan in 1398. 45 women were selected by purposive sampling and randomly placed in experimental and control groups. Data collection tools were Distress tolerance Simon and Gaher's (2005) questionnaires. Each of the experimental groups underwent 12 sessions of Michelle's cognitive-behavioral group therapy, and Marvi and Latifi's self-healing therapy, but the control group did not receive an educational certificate. Research data were analyzed using MANCOVA and chi-square test.
Findings: Based on the chi-square test, no significant difference was observed in terms of age, education, and disease duration between the three groups (P <0.05). The results showed that the cognitive-behavioral and self-healing experimental groups were significantly different from the control group in the Distress tolerance variable (P <0.05). Also, self-healing therapy has increased the Tolerance and absorption dimensions and Distress tolerance more than cognitive-behavioral therapy (P < 0.05).
Conclusions: According to this study, cognitive-behavioral therapy and self-healing can be used to increase the Distress tolerance of women with bulimia nervosa. However, self-healing treatment seems to be more than effective cognitive-behavioral therapy in this case.

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Aim and Background: Psychodrama is a type of emotional discharge that reopens a specific person's personality problem and presents aspects of his life and its comparison with cognitive-behavioral therapy can determine their effectiveness; Therefore, the aim of the present study was to compare the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral and Psychodrama therapy on the symptoms of externalized disorders in children aged 7 to 12 years.
Methods and Materials: The research method is quasi-experimental (quasi-experimental) studies with pre-test, post-test and follow-up with a control group. The sample group was available among 24 children who were registered at Ava Mehr Pasargad Counseling Center to diagnose the symptoms of externalized disorder and met the necessary criteria to participate in the study, 24 people were randomly selected. They were divided into two experimental groups and one control group. Cognitive-behavioral and Psychodrama were performed for the experimental groups, but the control group did not receive any special intervention. The research instruments included the Achenbach Child Behavior Inventory Questionnaire (parents' version). Analysis of covariance and Tukey post hoc test were used to analyze the data and examine the relationships between variables.  
Findings: The results showed that there was no significant difference between the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy and psychodrama therapy in the variables of aggressive behavior and law-breaking behavior in the post-test stage (P≥0.001) but there was a significant difference in the follow-up stage in the law-breaking behavior variable. .000.001) According to the effect size values for the variables of aggressive behavior and law-breaking behavior in cognitive-behavioral therapy and psychodrama, it was found that the effectiveness of psychodrama is more than cognitive-behavioral therapy (P≤0.001).
Conclusions: It seems that cognitive-behavioral therapy is more useful than psychodrama in improving aggressive behaviors.

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Aim and Background: The prevalence of coronavirus, the unknown and cognitive ambiguities of this virus and the resulting mortality rate, cause high anxiety in individual. The aim of this study was to provide a model of coronary anxiety based on locus of control, emotion regulation strategies, perceived social support and disease anxiety with emphasis on the mediating role of cognitive-behavioral avoidance in students.
Methods and Materials: The present study is of descriptive-correlation and structural equation modeling. The research population were Isfahan university students in the spring of 1400. From the population, according to Cochran's formula, 250 people were selected by available sampling and Rotter's Internal-External Locus of Control Scale (1966), Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (2004), Health Anxiety Questionnaire (2002), Perceived Social Support Questionnaire (1988), Avoidance Inventory (1994) and the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale (2019) were delivered to them virtually. Statistical analysis was performed by covariance-based structural equation modeling using Amos software.
Findings: The results showed that there is a direct relationship between the locus of control and disease anxiety with corona anxiety in students and these two variables explain 64% of the variance of corona anxiety in students (p<.05). also the results showed that cognitive-behavioral avoidance does not play a mediating role in these relationships.
Conclusions: Based on the results, it is necessary to take measures to reduce the locus of control and reduce disease anxiety in order to reduce corona anxiety in students.

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Aim and Background: Recent research has shown the prevalence of the Covid-19 epidemic in this regard The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) on reduction anxiety symptoms in patients with Generalized anxiety disorder in Dezful during the outbreak of Covid-19.
Methods and Materials: The research was a pilot study with a pretest-post-test-follow-up with control group. The statistical population of this study was the All patients with generalized anxiety disorder referring to Dezful counseling centers 30 people were selected through targeted sampling and randomly assigned to two groups of experimental and control group. In all three groups, patients' anxiety disorder was assessed through the questionnaire of General Anxiety (GAD-7). The first group received cognitive-behavioral therapy in 8 sessions 60 minutes, and the second group in 8 sessions 60 minutes acceptance and commitment therapy, but the third group did not receive training. Then, the anxiety test was re-evaluated in all three groups. Given that the assumptions of covariance analysis were not met data were analyzed using one-way variance analysis and SPSS software.
Findings: The findings of the study showed that cognitive-behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy could reduce the symptoms of anxiety in comparison with the control group (p <0.001) However, the difference between the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy on reduce the symptoms of anxiety was not significant (p> 0.05).
Conclusions: It seems that both therapeutic approaches can be effective in treating the symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder.

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Aim and Background: One of the common emotions in people suffering from mood and anxiety disorders is anger syndrome. The main concern for those suffering from anxiety disorders whose performance in various activities is impaired is self-harming anger and sometimes suicide. This research was conducted with the aim of comparing the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy and metacognitive therapy on anger indicators in patients with anxiety disorders.
Methods and Materials: It was a semi-experimental study with a pre-test, post-test and three-month follow-up design. All the patients with anxiety disorders referred to specialized psychological centers in Tehran city in 2022 constituted the statistical population of the study. 45 people were selected by purposeful sampling method and replaced by random assignment in three equal groups of 15 people. respectively, cognitive-behavioral therapy (Leahy et al., 2009) and metacognitive therapy (Wells and Fisher, 2015) were applied in 10 sessions, 1 session per week and each session for 1 hour in the subjects of the experimental groups. but the control group did not receive treatment intervention. In addition to the demographic information checklist, researcher-made form, data collection was done with state-trait aggression questionnaire. Data analysis was done with descriptive statistics, mixed analysis of variance and Bonferroni post hoc test with SPSS statistical software number 26.
Findings: The results showed that both cognitive-behavioral therapy and metacognitive therapy were effective in reducing symptoms of state anger, trait anger, and occurrence of anger and increasing symptoms of anger control at the end of treatment and after a three-month follow-up. the three-month follow-up results of the interventions also showed the stability of the treatment. also, the results of Bonferroni's post hoc test showed that cognitive-behavioral therapy has been more effective in improving the scores of anger indicators in patients with anxiety disorders than metacognitive therapy (P<0.05).
Conclusions: Based on this, it can be stated that both cognitive-behavioral and metacognitive methods are beneficial in improving anger indicators in people with anxiety disorders. Also, the existence of the behavioral activation session can be the reason for the superiority of cognitive-behavioral therapy.