The effectiveness of schema therapy on the symptoms, severity of early maladaptive schemas, approval-seeking and self concept in histrionic personality disorder

Introduction: This research aimed to study the effectiveness of schema-therapy on the symptoms, early maladaptive schemas, confirm-seeking, and self-concepts of the individuals with histrionic personality disorder. Materials and Methods:This research is an A-B single subject research with a sample of ۵ individuals with histrionic personality disorder in Mashhad during ۲۰۱۵-۲۰۱۶. In this research we have used SCID semi-structured interview, Millon’s questionnaire, confirm-seeking subscales, Beck’s dysfunctional attitudes questionnaire, self-concept questionnaire and YSQ. In this research, the intervention began after the baseline situation, and ۱۶ individual schema-therapy sessions were hold, and the follow-up sessions were conducted ۶ months after the last therapeutic session. Descriptive statistics and diagram visual analysis and improvement percentage were used for analyzing the research data. Results: This research showed that the severity of the symptoms, histrionic personality disorder, maladaptive schemas and confirm-seeking of the subjects decreased after the intervention but their self-concept increased. Conclusion: The present study showed that the schema-therapies are effective in the improvement of symptoms, maladaptive schemas, confirm-seeking, and self-concepts of the individuals with histrionic personality disorder.