Comparison of scheme therapy and cognitive group therapy on women`s perceived stress with high risky sexual behavior

Subject Areas : Journal of Educational Psychology

Akbar Hemmati Sabet ¹ , Shokouh Navabi Nejad ² , Javad Khalatbari ³

1 - Phd student, Department of counseling, Science and Research branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Professor, PhD in counseling, Department of counseling, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran.
3 - Assistant professor, phD in psychology, Department of psychology, Tonekabon Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mazandaran, Iran.

Received: 2016-02-17 Accepted : 2016-09-08 Published : 2016-08-22

Keywords: Perceived stress, Schema therapy, Cognitive therapy,

Abstract :

The aim of this study was to compare scheme therapy and cognitive group therapy on women`s perceived stress with high risk sexual behaviors referring to Hamadan health center. This is a semi-experimental study on single stage cluster sampling .The statistical sample consisted of 500 women with high risk sexual behaviors referring to health center for AIDS test The psychologists and a physician did diagnostic interview and 217 subjects were randomly chosen using sample volume formula and stress, anxiety and depression scales were run. 85 subjects were diagnosed to have stress of whom 45 were chosen randomly and divided into three groups of 15 consisting of two experimental groups and one control group.12 sessions of cognitive group therapy and 12 sessions of scheme therapy were implemented for 90 min of each sessions. At the end of training period, three groups were post-tested and perceived stress components were investigated in pre-test and post-test. The results showed that scheme therapy is more effective than cognitive group therapy on stress of women with high risk sexual behaviors.