چکیده (انگلیسی):

ABSTRACT: The present study aimed to examine the effectiveness of schema therapy based on conjunctive
metaphorical-allegorical narrative training in the treatment of dysthymia disorder. A total of 40 patients suffering
from dysthymic disorder, were recruited through the administration of structured DSM-IV (SCID), and using
purposive sampling and subsequent to being qualified in accordance with therapeutic conditions, they underwent
the treatment process. The study employed a pretest, post-test, follow-up design and the patients in the study
received a five-month, twenty-session schema therapy based on conjunctive metaphorical-allegorical narrative
training. Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II) and Young Schema Questionnaire Long Form (YSQ-LF) were the
research tools. Two-factor variance analysis with repeated measurement was employed to analyze the data.
Recovery percentage was also applied to measure the clinical significance. Results: the data analysis revealed that
schema therapy based on conjunctive metaphorical-allegorical narrative training led to significant reductions in
symptoms and healing the early schemas. Moreover, there was no lessening of effectiveness with recovery rates in
the follow-up study, two month after the treatment. The large positive treatment effects found in the schema
therapy based on conjunctive metaphorical-allegorical narrative training suggest that this treatment is more
successful in replacing maladaptive schemas with more healthy schemas, alleviating the severe symptoms of
dysthymia, reduction of suffering a relapse in dysthymic patients and achieving clinically significant and relevant
improvement as compared to Schema Focused Therapy or SFT.
Keywords: Metaphorical-Allegorical Education, Dysthymic, Maladaptive Schema