Compare the efficacy of acceptance and commitment based therapy and schema therapy on resiliency, post-traumatic growth and adaptation in patients with breast cancer in the East of Tehran hospitals

Subject Areas : Journal of Educational Psychology

narjesalsadat mirkhan ¹ , Javad Khalatbari ² , Biok Tajeri ³

1 - سایر
2 - Department of psychology,
3 - Department of

Received: 2020-08-02 Accepted : 2021-12-04 Published : 2020-11-21

Keywords: " Resilience", "Schema therapy", " Acceptance commitment therapy", " Breast cancer", " Post traumatic growth",

Abstract :

The present study was conducted to compare the effectiveness of treatment based on acceptance and commitment and schema therapy on resilience, post-traumatic growth and adaptation of patients with breast cancer in East Tehran medical centers. This research is a pilot study with a Census sampling method that selected 150 patients of all patients with breast cancer in East Tehran hospitals in a targeted manner. At the same time, a Conor-Davidson Resilience Questionnaire (CD-RIS) (2003), a 160-item Compliance Questionnaire (1962), and The posttraumatic growth questionnaire (1996) were presented. 45 subjects were selected randomly and divided into three groups of 15, consisting of two groups of intervention and one control group, 12 sessions of group schema and 12 sessions of acceptance therapy, each session was 90 minutes. The sessions were performed for each weekly intervention of two sessions with a time interval of 3 days. At the end of treatment, all three groups were subjected to post-test.