Developing and Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Behavioral-Cognitive-Metacognitive Intervention on the Severity of Obsessive- Compulsive Disorder’s Symptoms ()
Affiliation(s)
1Medical Plants Research Center, Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences, Shahrekord, Iran.
2Department of Clinical Psychology, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
3Department of Psychiatry, AJA University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran.
4Department of Clinical Psychology, AJA University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran.
ABSTRACT
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a disorder which is resistant to the existing treatments and to compensate this defect, it is necessary to design and search for the new treatments. This study aims to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of the behavioral-cognitive-metacognitive intervention on the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder. In order to achieve objectives of the study, after developing the behavioral-cognitive-metacognitive intervention, it was evaluated in a single-subject procedure. OCI-R scores at baseline were obtained by following the treatment on 3 individuals. The study was a single-subject research and the data were analyzed by drawing the graph. Graph drawing results showed that the behavioral-cognitive-metacognitive intervention reduced the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and reduction of OCD symptoms was also clinically significant. As the intervention of the present study is multi-dimensional and takes into account all the three behavioral, cognitive and metacognitive aspects and considers them interdependent and not apart or contradictory, it is considered as a new intervention.
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Nikfarjam, M. , Rabiei, M. , Donyavi, V. and Rahnejat, A. (2015) Developing and Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Behavioral-Cognitive-Metacognitive Intervention on the Severity of Obsessive- Compulsive Disorder’s Symptoms.
Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science,
5, 231-238. doi:
10.4236/jbbs.2015.57024.
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