Effectiveness of Group Training of Health-Oriented Lifestyle Using Psychodrama in the Improving Phobia, Paranoid Thoughts, and the Lack of Emotional Clarity in Students

The present study was done to investigate the effectiveness of group training of health-oriented lifestyle, using psychodrama, in the improvement phobia, paranoid thoughts, and lack of emotional clarity in female students living the dormitory of the University of Isfahan in 2013. This is a quasi-experimental study with preand post-test design and a control group. In this study, 32 fresh master's students, living in the dormitory, who scored above 190 and 90 in The Symptom Checklist 90 (SCL-90) and the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) inventories were selected. They then were placed into experimental and control groups equally. The experimental group received group training of health-oriented lifestyle for eight 90-minute sessions, based on the Walsh's theory (2011). The SCL-90 and DERS were used for measuring phobia-and-paranoid thoughts, and the lack of emotional clarity, respectively. Results from posttest, using ANCOVA , showed that the implementation of group training of health-oriented lifestyle through psychodrama could significantly increase the emotional clarity and decrease phobia and paranoid thoughts in the investigated students, compared to the control group