The effectiveness of mindfulness based cognitive therapy and schema therapy on the rate of using negative auotomatic thoughts in depressive patients.

Subject Areas : Educational Science

mehdi ghasemi ¹ , Gholamreza Manshaee ² , karim askari ³ , Houshang talebi ⁴

1 - دانشجوی دکتری روانشناسی عمومی دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد خوراسگان
2 - استادیار دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد نایین
3 - استادیار دانشگاه اصفهان
4 - دانشیار دانشگاه اصفهان

Received: 2012-11-25 Accepted : 2013-06-26 Published : 2013-06-22

Keywords: Depression, : negative automatic thoughts, mindfulness based cognitive therapy,

Abstract :

This study investigates the effectiveness of mindfulness based cognitive therapy on the rate of using negative auotomatic thoughts in women with major depressive patients in mashhad. Participants were 24 depressed women clients, randomly selected and randomly designated to 2 groups (one experimental group and one control group) The present experiment is of pre test, post test, control group kind. To gather data questionnaires measuring negative automatic thoughts were applied. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics (repeated analysis of variance) were used to test the research hypothesis. Thr results showed that mindfulness based cognitive therapy were effective in decrease of negative automatic thoughts in women with depressive disorder