The Effectiveness of Treatment Based on Mentalization on Cognitive Fusion and Psychological Resilience of Divorced Adolescents with Internalized Behavioral-Emotional Disorder

Soleimani, Mahdu; Saffari Nia, Majid; Bayanfar, Fatemeh

doi:10.22059/japr.2025.390521.645154

The Effectiveness of Treatment Based on Mentalization on Cognitive Fusion and Psychological Resilience of Divorced Adolescents with Internalized Behavioral-Emotional Disorder

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Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

mahdu soleimani ¹

majid saffari nia ²

Fatemeh Bayanfar ³

¹ PhD student in the Department of Counseling and Guidance, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

² Full Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran.

³ Associate Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran.

10.22059/japr.2025.390521.645154

Abstract

The present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of treatment based on mentalization on cognitive fusion and psychological resilience of divorced adolescents with internalized behavioral-emotional disorder. The current study was a semi-experimental application with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group and a two-month follow-up period. The statistical population of the present study was made up of divorced adolescents suffering from internalized behavioral-emotional disorder in the first and second period of secondary education in Asadabad city, Hamadan province in 2022-2023. In this research, 35 adolescent were selected by purposeful sampling and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups (18 adolescent in the experimental group and 17 adolescent in the control group). The adolescent in the experimental group received the treatment based on mentalization during eight weeks in eight 90-minute sessions. Children and Adolescents Behavioral Inventory (CABI), Cognitive Fusion Questionnaire (CFQ) and Psychological Resilience Questionnaire (PRQ) were used in the present study. The data were analyzed through mixed ANOVA via SPSS23 software. The results showed that treatment based on mentalization has significant effect on the cognitive fusion (p<0001) and psychological resilience (p<0001) in the divorced adolescents with internalized behavioral-emotional disorder.

Keywords

Cognitive Fusion

Divorced Adolescents

Internalized Behavioral-Emotional Disorder

Treatment Based on Mentalization

Psychological Resilience