A Comparison of the effectiveness of Bowenian family therapy and acceptance and commitment-based therapy (ACT) on differentiation of mothers with one child

Subject Areas : Islamic-Iranian Family Studies Journal

Farahnaz Koranian ¹ , Mokhtar Arefi ² , Hasan Amiri ³

1 - PhD student of General Psychology, Kermanshah Branch, Kermanshah University, Kermanshah, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Counseling, Kermanshah Branch, Kermanshah University, Kermanshah, Iran.
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Counseling, Kermanshah Branch, Kermanshah University, Kermanshah, Iran

Received: 2021-01-27 Accepted : 2021-10-09 Published : 2021-11-22

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The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of Bowenian family therapy and acceptance and commitment-based therapy on differentiation of mothers with one child. This research is a quasi-experimental study with a pretest-posttest design with two experimental groups and a control group. The statistical population of the study included mothers of preschool single children in Kermanshah kindergartens in 2020. A total of 45 people were selected by simple random sampling and randomly assigned to two experimental groups and one control group, equal to 15 people. Data were collected in pretest-posttest stages with Skowron (1998) differentiation scale. After performing the pre-test, the members of the experimental group participated separately in eight weekly 1.5-hour sessions of Bowenian family therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy. Covariance analysis and Bonferroni post hoc test were used to analyze the data. The results of analysis of covariance showed that the effect of Bowenian family therapy and the effect of acceptance and commitment therapy on differentiation in individuals is significant and stable (P<0.05). The results of Bonferroni test showed that due to the size of the differences, the effectiveness of Bowenian family therapy in comparison with other interventions on increasing differentiation and related components was higher. Both treatments can be effective in increasing maternal differentiation, however, Bowenian family therapy can be considered more effective than other interventions.