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Effectiveness of Jeffrey Young's Schema-focused Therapy and Aaron Beck's Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in a Patient with Mixed Anxiety-depressive Disorder and Fibromyalgia
Jorge Alberto Velásquez Castrillón,
Yurany Valencia Posada
Affiliation: Grancolombiano Polytechnic, Medellin, Colombia
Keywords: Schema Therapy, Cognitive Therapy, Anxiety, Depression, Fibromyalgia, Terapia de esquemas, terapia cognitiva, ansiedad, depresión, fibromialgia.
Categories: News and Views, Life Sciences, Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
Languages: Spanish, Castilian
This study aims to show the effectiveness for applying Jeffrey Young schemes therapy, and therapy applied in a case with a a patientt with mixed anxiety and depression disorder and fibromyalgia. The evaluation phase was performed through a free clinical interview during 4 sessions, during which one the Beck anxiety inventory, the Beck depression inventory, the pain scale, the YSQ.L2 were applied. The intervention phases were carried out during 10 sessions lasting one hour each. During the intervention cognitive techniques were applied (Beck, 1960), such as: cognitive restructuring, Socratic dialogue and self-registration, behavioral, experiential and emotional techniques. At the end of the process, the same tests previously mentioned were applied, evidencing significant effectiveness by decreasing scores of ill adaptive schemes, anxiety symptoms, depression.