The Effectiveness of Unified Trans-Diagnostic Treatment on Emotion Regulation of Children with Learning Disabilities

Zolfaghari, Sara; Ehtesham Zadeh, Parvin; Naderi, Farah

doi:10.22038/mjms.2024.79748.4592

The Effectiveness of Unified Trans-Diagnostic Treatment on Emotion Regulation of Children with Learning Disabilities

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

sara zolfaghari ¹

parvin ehtesham zadeh ²

farah naderi ³

¹ PhD student, Department of Psychology of Exceptional Children, Faculty of Humanities, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran.

² Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran.

³ Professor of Counseling Department, Faculty of Humanities, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran.

10.22038/mjms.2024.79748.4592

Abstract

The present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of unified trans-diagnostic treatment on emotion regulation of children with learning disabilities. The statistical population included boys and girls with learning disabilities (age range 8 to 12 years) who were studying in elementary schools in district 3 of Tehran in the academic year of 2021-2022. In this research, 28 children with learning disabilities were selected by purposeful sampling and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups (14 children in the experimental group and 14 children in the control group). Children in the experimental group received the unified trans-diagnostic treatment during ten weeks in ten 75-minute sessions. Learning Disability Questionnaire (LDQ) and Emotion Regulation Cheklist (ERC) were used in the present study. The data were analyzed through mixed ANOVA via SPSS23 software. The results showed that unified trans-diagnostic treatment has significant effect on the emotion regulation (p<0001, Eta=0.69, F=59.86) in the children with learning disabilities. As a result, Unified Trans-Diagnostic Treatment using techniques such as recognizing primary and secondary emotions and tracking emotional experiences, becoming aware of the logic of emotional confrontations and avoiding emotional and cognitive avoidance can be an efficient method to improve emotion regulation of children with Learning disability is used.

Keywords

Emotion Regulation

Learning Disabilities

Unified Trans-Diagnostic Treatment

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