The Effectiveness of Integrative Therapy Short-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in Increasing Ego Strength and Reducing Generalized Anxiety Disorder
The aim of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of Integrative Therapy, Short-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in increasing ego strength and reducing generalized anxiety disorder. The research method of the present study is applied and is quasi-experimental with a pretest-posttest design with control group. The statistical population of the study consists of all individuals with generalized anxiety disorder who attended counseling centers in Hamadan during 2017-2019. The subjects diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder were selected based on Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HRSA) and Psychosocial Inventory of Ego Strengths (PIES). Twenty-four of them were selected through a semi-structured clinical interview and randomly divided into two experimental (n = 12) and control (n = 12) groups. The experimental group received 15 sessions of 60 minutes of Integrative Therapy and a psychiatric diagnosis once a week and were randomly divided into two groups: experimental and control. Multivariate analysis of covariance was performed to analyze the data. The results showed that when controlling for the pretest effect, there was a significant difference between the posttest scores of the experimental and control groups in terms of ego strength and generalized anxiety (p<0.05). Consequently, Integrative Therapy was effective in increasing ego strength and decreasing generallized anxiety of the experimental group
