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Taghipour A, Ghamari kivi H, Sheikholslamy A, Rezaeisharif A. (2022). The efficacy of the narrative therapy emphasizing on innovative moments on cognitive emotion regulation in girls with nonsuicidal self injury. Journal of Psychological Science. 21(109), 145-162. doi:10.52547/JPS.21.109.145
URL: http://psychologicalscience.ir/article-1-1235-en.html

Background: Nonsuicidal self injury has become a common and worrying issue among female adolescents. One of the most important factors in the occurrence of self-harming behaviors is negative emotions. Studies have examined the efficacy of limited therapies on borderline personality disorder and the efficacy of narrative-therapy on girls with nonsuicidal self injuiry has been neglected.
Aims: The aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy of narrative therapy with emphasis on innovative moments on emotion regulation in adolescent girls with nonsuicidal self injuiry.
Methods: The present study is a quasi-experimental study with experimental and control group. The statistical population of the present study was all female high school students with nonsuicidal self injury who were referred to Shahid Fahmideh Student Counseling Center in Bonab city from 2015 to 2020. In this study, the available sampling method was used to select the sample, Thirty students with a history of nonsuicidal self injury who had low emotion regulation were selected and were randomly assigned to the experimental group of 15 people and the control group of 15 people.The experimental groups were exposed to 8 sessions of narrative therapy based on the intervention program of White and Epston (1990) and the control group did not receive any intervention.The post-test was performed for groups. Due to the nature of the research, the statistical model used to test the hypotheses of the present study is multivariate analysis of variance.
Results: Narrative therapy with an emphasis on innovative moments had a significant effect on improving emotion regulation (p <0.00).
Conclusion: According to the findings of the present study, it can be said that narrative therapy with emphasis on innovative moments is a suitable intervention method to improve emotion regulation in girls with nonsuicidal self-injury.