Islamic lifestyle with a focus on health

Islamic lifestyle with a focus on health

A Comparison Study of the Effectiveness of Davanloo Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (D-ISTDP) and Cognitive Emotional Regulation in the Treatment of Fourth and Fifth -Grades Student’s Mathematica Learning Disabilities

Authors
Masoume Saifi
Davood Manavipour
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Garmsar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Garmsar, Iran
Abstract
Purpose: The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of emotional intervention based on cognitive emotion regulation and Davanloo`s intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (DISTDP), in the treatment of math learning disorder.
Method: This (A-B-A) research is a quasi-experimental study using pre-test, post-test and follow up test with control groups. 46 fourth and fifth grade students who had math disorders with minimum intelligence (87/03±11/07) were selected from among, Tehran primary schools. They were selected thrugho targeted sampling and randomly.divided into three groups; The experimental groups received the intervention of two Gross Emotional regulation protocols and Davanloo intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy in twelve sessions, separately. The control group received no intervention. The effectiveness of the intervention was measured using the K-Math diagnostic test in three pre-test. post-test and follow up test stages. The data was analyzed using mixed analysis of variance and Bonfroni Post-Hoc test.
 Findings: Emotional interference affected the reduction of math learning disorders (Partial 0/411,P<0.01 F_2,42=14/999).  Davanloo intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy was more effective than Cognitive emotion regulation intervention ( P<0.05,-J=10.208).  
Conclusion: Emotional intervention can prepare a person from within to deal with problems, and improve his or her math performance; Furthermore, it even can become a more sustainable treatment model for learning disorders
Keywords
Math learning disorder
Davanloo intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (DISTDP)
Cognitive emotion regulation (CER)