Designing indigenous model of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and checking the effect in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Subject Areas : Educational

Peyman Dousti ¹ , Javad Khalatbari ² , Ahmad Baseri ³ , Bahram Parvin Gonabadi ⁴

1 - Department of Psychology, Tehran North Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Department of Psychology, Tonekabon Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon, Iran
3 - Member of the faculty of Imam Hossein University, Tehran, Iran.
4 - Department of Persian Literature, Tehran North Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

Received: 2019-09-29 Accepted : 2019-11-10 Published : 2024-09-25

Keywords: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Indigenous psychological treatment, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.,

Abstract :

This study design an indigenous model for Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), then check the effect of this model in PTSD. The qualitative section used of Braun & Clarke (2006) the method of thematic analysis. The quantitative part was experimental pilot pretest-posttest study with control group. Statistical population included all individuals who referred to a Psychological Clinic in the period from September 2018 to Des 2018, which 200 individuals were invited through call. In order to evaluation, both DSM-5 and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (Berislin, Lonner & Thorndike, 1973) were used. Afterward, 28 individuals selected voluntarily and randomly divided into two groups. The experimental group subjected to 8 sessions of 120-minute treatment of indigenous model of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). To identify the themes of Acceptance & Commitment Therapy and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, were referred to relevant scientific texts and specialists in these fields. After identifying treatment themes, experts in Persian literature were referred to identify existing themes (poems) related to the other themes (treatment themes and PTSD). In order to analyze the data in qualitative section the thematic analysis were used and in the quantitative part Descriptive Statistics & Analysis of Covariance were used. The findings indicated that the indigenous model has effect on PTSD (P<0.5).

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