The Effectiveness of Emotion-Focused Therapy based on HMT.LMG Approach on Emotion Regulation and Resolving Parent-Adolescence Conflicts in Female Students

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• Raziyeh Hafez Sherbaf ¹
• Bahramali Ghanbari Hashemabadi ²
• Fatemeh Alidoosti ³

¹ PhD student, counseling and psychology department, Bojnord branch, Islamic Azad University, Bojnord, Iran

² Professor, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

³ Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Khayyam University, Mashhad, Iran

10.22067/tpccp.2022.73511.1202

Abstract

Purpose:  The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of the emotion-focused therapy based on HMT.LMG approach (Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go) on regulating emotions and resolving parent-adolescent conflicts.
Method: The research method was quasi-experimental with a pretest-posttest and control group design and a three-month follow-up assessment. The statistical population consisted of all 12018 female students aged from 14 to 17 years who lived in Mashhad city and studied over the academic year of 2020-2021. The research sample was selected through the multi-stage randomized cluster sampling method. Eight high schools with a total population of 1425 students were randomly selected. The child's attitude towards mother scale (CAM) was used as the screening test in order to identify child-parent conflicts.  A number of 30 daughter-mother pairs were then selected and randomly assigned into the study groups. The difficulties in emotion regulation scale and parent-adolescence conflict version of conflict tactics scale were used to collect data. Both groups completed the questionnaires and the experimental group received the the emotion-focused therapy based on HMT.LMG approach for 5 sessions. The control group did not receive any intervention. Both groups were then asked to complete the research questionnaires for the post –test and follow-up phases. The data was analyzed by multivariate repeated measurments ANOVA method using SPSS21 software.
Findings: The findings showed that the effect of time, group, and time interaction in the experimental group was significant for resolving conflicts and regulating emotions capabilities.

Keywords

• emotion-focused therapy
• HMT.LMG approach
• resolve Parent-Adolescence conflict
• emotion regulation

20.1001.1.22516352.1401.12.1.3.8

Main Subjects

• Clinical psychology

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