The Effectiveness of Attachment Based Therapy on the Treatment of Clinical Impairment due to eating disorder in Binging Disorder and obesity girls

Subject Areas : social psychology

zahra D.Bozorgi ¹ , shole Amiri ² , Ali Mazaheri ³ , Hooshang Talebi ⁴

1 - دانشگا ه آزاد اسلامی اهواز گروه روان شناسی
2 - دانشگاه اصفهان گروه روانشناسی
3 - دانشگاه شهید بهشتی-گروه روان شناسی
4 - دانشگاه اضفهان گروه آمار

Received: 2017-05-28 Accepted : 2017-05-28 Published : 2013-12-22

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Abstract :

The present study aims to investigate the efficacy of attachment-based therapy in the treatment of Clinical Impairment due to eating disorder among the female students of primary school in Ahwaz. This is an empirical study with pretest-posttest-follow up and control group. The target samples were 32 female individuals of primary school that have the highest scores on attachment and binge eating disorder. The evaluation implements include Randolph Attachment Disorder Questionnaire, Children’s Binge Eating Disorder Scale, and The Clinical Impairment Assessment Questioner. Two groups have been made including the attachment-based therapy group, and a control group. Mothers have participated in 10 learning sessions according to their children's group. After the implementation of the therapies, a post test has been done. After 45 days, a follow up test has also been done. The result of the covariate analysis shows that there is a meaningful difference between the control group and the empirical group. The mean post- test (P<0.05) and follow up (P<0.05) scores of Clinical Impairment due to eating disorder symptoms in the experimental group is significantly lower than that of the control group.