Effectiveness of Schema-Based Group Therapy Emotional Therapy on Emotional Anesthesia (Numbness) and Emotional Simplification in Mothers of Mentally Retarded Children

Today, mothers of mentally retarded children have many emotional problems. Therefore, the aim of this study was the effectiveness of group therapy, schema-based therapy, emotional therapy on emotional anesthesia, and emotional simplification of mothers of mentally retarded children. This was a pre-test-post-test experimental study with a control group. The statistical population of the study was all mothers with mentally retarded children less than 15 years old, Ardabil city in the spring of 1399. By referring to Ardabil Welfare Office, 4 centers and schools were selected from rehabilitation centers and exceptional schools by multi-stage cluster sampling method, and 40 families of children with mental disabilities were selected by sample method. Select simple random sampling in accordance with the criteria for research and willingness to participate in treatment from the welfare center of Ardabil city and place the mothers of the family in two groups of random assignment, experimental (n = 20) and control (n = 20). they got. The experimental group received 10 sessions of group emotional therapy regimen but the control group did not. Members of both groups responded to the Leahy Emotional Schemas Scale (2002) before and after treatment. Analysis of covariance was used to analyze the data. The results showed that the effectiveness of the therapeutic schema based on emotional therapy is significant with emotional anesthesia (P<0/01) and emotional simplification (P<0/01). other results of this cure resulted in a significant reduction in scores of emotional numbness and emotional numbness in mothers of low - power - power children studied in the experiment group compared to the control group. in general, the results of this research show that emotional disorders can be considered as an effective remedy for modifying many of the emotional schemas of mothers of low power.