NCT07208721

The Key to Emotional Balance

The Key to Emotional Balance: The Effect of a Positive Psychotherapy-Based Balance Model on Emotion Regulation, Recovery, and Life Purpose in Bipolar Disorder

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 74 (estimated)
• Sponsor: TC Erciyes University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This randomized controlled experimental study aimed to evaluate the effects of the Key to Emotional Balance (KBA) psychoeducational program, based on the Balance Model of Positive Psychotherapy (PPT), on indicators of emotion regulation difficulties, recovery, and purpose in life in adults with bipolar disorder. Intervention and control groups (n=37 each; total n=74) will be formed through simple random assignment. The intervention will consist of eight individual sessions, each lasting 40-50 minutes. Data will be collected using the Difficulty in Emotion Regulation, Recovery Assessment Scale, and the Life Goals Scale in the Context of PPT. Measurements will be conducted as a pretest and posttest.

Conditions

• The Key to Emotional Balance

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	The Key to Emotional Balance	The Key to Emotional Balance (KBA) program consists of eight sessions, each lasting 40-50 minutes, and aims to help participants develop emotional balance. The first session introduces the individual, introduces group rules, provides information about the program, and supports the client in identifying and expressing their emotions. The second session encourages the client to assess their energy-time intensity in their current and future balance models and, if deviations occur, to restructure them. The third session will help participants recognize their abilities in coping with bipolar illness and its symptoms and to use these abilities effectively. They will also be encouraged to identify factors that hinder their ability to use their abilities and focus on their developed abilities. The fourth session will focus on developing a "positive" perspective, enabling them to approach bipolar illness and its symptoms from a positive perspective. The fifth session will support participants

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-10-01
• Primary completion: 2026-06-01
• Completion: 2026-09-01
• First posted: 2025-10-06
• Last updated: 2025-10-06