اثربخشی آموزش تنظیم هیجان بر کاهش ولع مصرف در افراد وابسته به مواد

Low levels of emotion regulation resulting from the inability to effective cope with emotions and manage them, play a role in the onset and craving of substance use. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the effectiveness of emotion regulation training on reduced craving in substance-dependent individuals. The present study was a quasi-experimental research in the form of pretest-posttest with control group. The statistical population of the present study included all substance-dependent individuals referred to addiction treatment camps in the city of Famenin in 2015. Among them, forty substance-dependent individuals were selected by using a convenient sampling method and were included randomly in experimental and control groups. The data were analyzed using covariance analysis. The results showed that emotion regulation training can reduce craving in substance-dependent individuals (p<0.001). The difficulty in emotion regulation is one of the problems of substance-dependent individuals and training how to express and manage emotions can be effective in reducing the problems of these individuals.