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Abstract—This study was aimed to examine the effectiveness of cognitive analytic therapy on symptoms severity of obsessive-compulsive disorder. This was a empirical study. Twenty patients with obsessive compulsive disorder were selected by inconvenience sampling and randomly assigned to experimental and control group. Participants initially completed the Socio-demographic Questionnaire and interviewed by the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV-TR Axis I Disorders. Then, the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale was administered in baseline, post-treatment and follow-up. Mixed analysis of variance with repeated measures showed that symptoms severity of obsessive compulsive disorder was significantly decreased at post-treatment and three-month follow-up in the treatment group as compared to the control group (F1,18 = 15.05, P < 0.001). The interaction of intervention and factor of time resulted in decreased symptoms severity in post-treatment and follow-up (F2,36 = 22.53, P < 0.001).The group cognitive analytic therapy is an effective and longstanding therapy for symptoms management of obsessive compulsive disorder.

Index Terms—Cognitive analytic, therapy, obsessive-compulsive, disorder.

M. Arab Ameri and F. Rasouli Khorshidi are with Educational Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Babol Brabnch, Iran (e-mail: arabameripsy@yahoo.com, frasouli64@yahoo.com).
A. Yousefi is with Clinical Psychology, Iran (e-mail: azitayusefi@yahoo.com).
S. Adl Rad is with Education and Training Organization, Semnan, Iran (e-mail: adlrad.psy@gmail.com).

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Cite: M. Arab Ameri, A. Yousefi, S. Adl Rad, and F. Rasouli Khorshidi, "The Effectiveness of Cognitive Analytic Therapy on the Severity of Symptoms in Patients with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder," International Journal of Information and Education Technology vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 212-216, 2017.