The comparison effectiveness indigenous model of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focused on compassion with non-indigenous model in the same treatment in PTSD on women

Subject Areas : Educational

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

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

Received: 2019-04-22 Accepted : 2019-07-17 Published : 2021-05-22

Keywords: indigenous psychological treatment, Women, Compassion Focused Therapy, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, acceptance and commitment therapy,

Abstract :

The present study compared of effectiveness of indigenous model of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focused on compassion with non-indigenous model in the same treatment in PTSD on women. The method of this research is experimental and included a pretest-posttest study with two experimental and one control groups. The statistical population included 200 volunteer women who referred to the “Avaye Dousti” Psychological Clinic in the period from Oct 2018 to Des 2018 that invited to this study trough recall. Afterward, 42 individuals selected voluntarily and randomly divided into three groups. The first experimental group subjected to 8 sessions of 120-minute treatment of indigenous model of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focused on Compassion and the second group was treated using the same treatment as non-indigenous model. The control group didn't receive any intervention. In order to evaluation, both DSM V diagnostic criteria for PTSD and Mississippi scale questionnaire were used. In order to analyze the data, Descriptive Statistics, Analysis of Covariance and pairwise comparison by SIDAK, were used. The findings indicated that the mean difference in 3 subscales of problem in interpersonal communication, problem of emotional inhabitation and depression in the group effected by the indigenous model has more than the non-indigenous model. There was no difference in the penetrating memories subscale, and no changes were observed in the control group.

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