The Effectiveness of Coping Cat Program on improving Emotion Cognitive Regulation among Children with Anxiety Disorders

Anxiety disorders are the most popular symptoms among children. It affects cognitive, emotional and social developmental of children. High prevalence and negative outcomes cause to establish effective treatment.This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of Kendal treatment program (COPING CAT Program) on improvement of cognitive emotion regulation of anxious children.This is a Quasi-Experimental study with pretest-posttest and control group. The control and experimental groups are selected by purposive sampling (N=22, age= 8-13).The evaluation implemented using multidimensional anxiety scale (MASC) , Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), Teacher Report Form (TRF) and Cognitive Emotion Regulation (CERQ-K).The experiment was applied during 16 sessions individually. SPSS-18 software and descriptive statistics and covariate analysis method were used to analyze the data. Covariance analysis revealed that the overall mean non-adaptive cognitive coping strategies scores in the experimental group compared to the control group was significantly lower (P<0.05). The finding showed that the experimental group compared with the control group, the scores of adaptive cognitive coping strategies showed a significant increase (P