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Aim and Background: Attention of new treatments is important to reduce the problems of people with generalized anxiety disorder. Accordingly, the aim of present study was to comparison of effectiveness of barlow's transdiagnostic, and Menin and Fresco’s emotion regulation therapy in the symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder.
Methods and Materials: Four patients with generalized anxiety disorder who had complete symptoms of this disorder based on multidimensional evaluation (generalized anxiety questionnaire and clinical interview) were selected by purposeful sampling. This study was a case report. The Transdiagnostic protocol and emotion regulation therapy were administered in two phases: baseline, 15 and 16 sessions, and two months follow-up. Subjects responded to general anxiety disorder questionnaire, clinical global impressions, clinical satisfaction questionnaire, and working alliance inventory. Data were analyzed using visuals inspection, effect size index and improvement percentage.
Findings: The results showed that transdiagnostic and emotion regulation therapy have positive efficient on treatment's target. However, transdiagnostic therapy was more effective in relieving symptoms of generalized anxiety than in emotion regulation therapy.
Conclusions: Transdiagnostic therapy and emotion regulation therapy are effective in reducing symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder and the effectiveness of Transdiagnostic therapy is greater than emotion regulation therapy.

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Aim and Background: The purpose of the present study was to compare the effectiveness of meta-diagnostic therapy and therapy based on acceptance and commitment on mental rumination and emotional exhaustion of divorced female heads of households.
Methods and Materials: semi-experimental research method with a pre-test, post-test and follow-up design with two experimental groups and a control group and a statistical population including all divorced female heads of the household in Isfahan city in 1402, which was selected by available sampling method of 45 people And they were randomly placed in two experimental groups (acceptance and commitment treatment group of 15 people and extra diagnostic treatment group of 15 people) and control group (15 people). Then, 8 sessions of 90 minutes were given to the experimental group of acceptance and commitment therapy, and 8 sessions of 90 minutes were given to the experimental group of extra diagnostic therapy. In addition, there was no intervention for the control group. Data collection tools included Nolen-Hoeksema and Moro (1991) mental rumination questionnaire, Maslach and Jackson (1981) emotional exhaustion questionnaire. The data was analyzed by the statistical method of analysis of variance with repeated measurements.
Findings: The results showed that there was a significant difference between the mean scores of the post-test and the follow-up test of the variable of mental rumination and the mean scores of the post-test of emotional exhaustion, and the treatment based on acceptance and commitment was more effective than the extra-diagnostic treatment on reducing Divorced women had mental rumination and worry.
Conclusions: Acceptance and commitment therapy and transdiagnostic therapy by teaching appropriate methods of dealing with emotional issues have increased the adaptive strategies of divorced female heads of households to regulate emotions and have improved the level of mental health and reduced mental rumination and emotional exhaustion, and this has led to the experience there are fewer physiological and emotional disorders.