The effectiveness of group interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) on mood in mothers experiencing child mourning
Subject Areas :maryam mirzaee 1 , Ameneh Sadat Kazemi 2 * , Bita Bahrami 3
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2 - Psychology and Educational Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Tehran Medical Sciences Unit
3 - Department of Psychology, Faculty of Medicine, Tehran Medical Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Tehran
Keywords: group interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT), mood state, mothers with child bereavement experience,
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Grief is a natural human experience, arising from the loss of deep connections, particularly through death. This multifaceted response includes physical, psychological, and behavioral aspects. This research aimed to investigate the ffectiveness of Group Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) on the mood of bereaved mothers.This was an pplied, quasi-experimental study using a pre-test/post-test design with a control group. The statistical opulation comprised mothers residing in Tehran who had experienced child bereavement within the first six months of the year 1402 . Thirty bereaved mothers were selected using onvenience sampling and randomly assigned to two groups of 15: an experimental group and a control group.The experimental group participated in 8 ninety-minute sessions of Group Interpersonal Psychotherapy (two sessions per week), while the control group received no intervention. Both groups completed the Brooms Mood States Questionnaire at two stages (pre-test and post-test). The extracted data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and multivariate analysis of covariance.The results of the covariance analysis test indicated that Group Interpersonal Psychotherapy had a significant effect on the mood status of bereaved mothers. Therefore, based on these findings, IPT can be utilized to improve mood, psychological flexibility, and differentiation in mothers who have experienced child bereavement |
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