Cognitive-behavioral counseling and self-perception of male clients receiving methadone maintenance treatment

ABSTRACT

This study aimed to determine the effect of cognitive-behavioral counseling on self-perception and self-efficacy of clients receiving methadone maintenance treatment. Participants were selected 70 drug users based on the available sampling and randomly divided into two groups. Prior and 4 weeks after to the intervention, both groups were scored using Porhossein’s Shortened Self-perception Scale. In addition to typical interventions provided by clinics, the experimental group received cognitive-behavioral group counseling for eight weeks. Data were analyzed with statistical tests. The results suggested that cognitive-behavioral counseling significantly improved clients’ self-perception scores in the experimental group at the posttest. Cognitive-behavioral group counseling can be effective in promoting self-perception of clientss receiving methadone maintenance treatment.

KEYWORDS:

• Self-perception
• methadone maintenance treatment
• substance use
• cognitive-behavioral counselling
• Iranian drug users

Contributors

Authors contributed equally to this article.

Disclosure statement

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest about this work.

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Funding

This study was supported by a grant from the Deputy for Research and Technology, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences (Grant No. 95233).