Purpose: This research was conducted with the aim of determining the effectiveness of treatment focused on emotions on body self-concept, body inspection behaviors and agitation of patients with anorexia nervosa.
Methodology: The research method was semi-experimental with experimental and control groups with a pre-test and post-test design. The statistical population consisted of all patients with anorexia nervosa who referred to the medical centers of Tehran in 1402. The samples were selected using the available sampling method in the number of 30 people and were randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups with the number of 15 people for each group. (2010), Body Check Questionnaire (BCQ) and Disturbance Tolerance Questionnaire (DTS) answered. Therapy sessions focused on emotions included 8 therapy sessions that were conducted during 4 weeks, two days a week and each session lasted 60 minutes based on the treatment plan of Greenberg and Geller (2012). In order to analyze the data, multivariate and univariate analysis of covariance tests were used.
Findings: The results showed that the scores of body self-concept variables in the experimental group increased in the post-test phase compared to the control group, and the scores of body checking behaviors and agitation decreased in them.
Discussion and conclusion: It can be said that improving body self-concept scores and reducing scores in the variables of body checking behaviors and agitation in the participants of the experimental group indicated the positive effects of the therapeutic approach focused on emotions.