The Effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Group Therapy with a Look at Compassion Therapy on Rumination and Mental Health of Women with Breast Cancer

Subject Areas : Journal of Excellence in counseling and psychotherapy

Fatemeh Soghra Karbalai Harafteh ¹ , Aram Pezeshki Almani ² , Mohammad Reza Bagheri ³ , Elmira Khalilzadeh Klagar ⁴

1 - Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Zahedan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Zahedan, Iran
2 - Master of Clinical Psychology, Tonekabon Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon, Iran.
3 - Master of Personality Psychology, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran.
4 - Master of Clinical Psychology, Sari Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sari, Iran.

Received: 2020-12-06 Accepted : 2021-01-19 Published : 2021-04-21

Keywords: mental health, breast cancer, Ruminant, acceptance and commitment, compassion therapy,

Abstract :

urpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of group therapy based on acceptance and commitment with a view to compassion therapy on rumination and mental health of women with breast cancer in Tehran in 2019. Methodology: It was a quasi-experimental with a pretest-posttest design with a control group. The statistical population of the study included all women with breast cancer in Tehran who were selected by convenience sampling method and were divided into experimental (n = 15) and control (n = 15) groups. The experimental group underwent 8 sessions of 90 minutes of group therapy based on acceptance and commitment with compassionate therapy, and the control group waited for treatment during this period. Data collection method was based on the standard questionnaire of Nolen Hoxma and Murrow (1991) and the standard questionnaire of mental health Goldberg (1973). The analysis of the information obtained from the questionnaires was performed through SPSS19 software in two descriptive and inferential sections (analysis of covariance). Findings: The results showed that acceptance and commitment based therapy group with a focus on compassion therapy reduced "rumination" of women with breast cancer. Conclusion: The results also showed that acceptance and commitment based therapy group with a focus on compassion therapy improved mental health in women with breast cancer. Therefore, the findings of the present study showed that the treatment of acceptance and commitment combined with compassionate therapy is effective in reducing rumination and increasing the mental health of patients with breast cancer.