Comparison the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment focused therapy and compassion focused therapy on loneliness

Subject Areas : social psychology

Amirpasha Kazemi ¹ , Hasan Ahadi ² , Hamid Nejat ³

1 - PhD Student of Health Psychology, Department of Psychology, Kish International Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kish Island, Iran
2 - Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Educational Science and Psychology, Allameh Tabatabaei University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Center Ghochan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ghochan, Iran

Received: 2019-08-24 Accepted : 2020-01-17 Published : 2020-07-22

Keywords: compassion focused therapy# acceptance and commitment focused therapy# loneliness,

Abstract :

This research aimed to comparison the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment focused therapy and compassion focused therapy on loneliness. Present study was a semi-experimental with a pre-test, post-test and follow-up design with control group. The research population was type II diabetes patients referred to central clinic of Ajudaniye of Tehran city in 2018 year. The research sample was 45 people who were selected by available sampling method and randomly divided in three 15 people groups. One of the experimental group trained eight sessions of 90 minutes with the methods of compassion focused therapy and acceptance and commitment focused therapy and the control group was placed on the waiting list for training. The research tool was the version-3 of Russell’s questionnaires of loneliness. Data were analyzed in SPSS-21 software and by repeated measures method. The results showed that both methods of compassion focused therapy and acceptance and commitment focused therapy in the post-test led to decrease loneliness in type II diabetes patients and treatment results were maintained in the follow-up (P0/05). According to the results, it is recommended that therapists and clinical psychologists used from mentioned methods to decrease the loneliness.

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