The Effectiveness of Teaching Mindfulness Strategies on Increasing Failure Tolerance and Depression in Women with Adolescents

Subject Areas : Journal of Excellence in counseling and psychotherapy

Narges Saremipour ¹ , Parinaz Banisi ² , Saeedeh Zomorodi ³

1 - Master's degree in family counseling at Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor, Tehran Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2018-04-25 Accepted : 2018-06-11 Published : 2018-11-22

Keywords: Depression, Failure, Addicts, Teaching Mindfulness Skills,

Abstract :

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of teaching mindfulness skills on increasing failure tolerance and reducing depression in women with addicted spouse referred to the counseling center in Karaj.  Method: This study was a semi-experimental design with pretest-posttest design with control group. The statistical population of this study was the wives of addicts who referred to the counseling center in Karaj, which included 100 people. According to the semi-experimental research, 30 samples were selected by sampling method and were randomly divided into two experimental (15 subjects) and control (n = 15) groups. The experimental group participated in mindfulness training sessions and the control group did not receive any intervention. To collect the data, the Herington Failure Scale (2005) and the Beck Depression Test were used. SPSS software was used to analyze the data. In addition to descriptive statistics, the covariance statistical method was used to analyze the research hypotheses. Findings: The results indicated that Mindfulness-based education was effective in relieving the failure and depression of the wives of the addicts referred to. Also, the results showed that Mindfulness-based education is effective in relieving failure and reducing the depression of spouses of addicts who are referred. Also, the results showed that Mindfulness Education is effective in the development of addicted spouses. Other results indicated that Mindfulness-based education is effective in the competence of addicted wives. Discussion and Conclusion: The findings generally indicate that Mindfulness-based education is effective in reducing failure and reducing the depression of addicts' wives referring to the counseling center in Karaj.