The Effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Group Therapy on Fear of Negative Evaluation in Social anxiety Disorder of orphaned adolescent girls

Subject Areas : social psychology

monireh pourfarahani ¹ , HosseinAhmad Brabadi ² , Ahmad Heydarnia ³

1 - Master of Science, group psychology Bojnord, Bojnord, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Counseling, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Bojnourd University, Bojnourd, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, counseling and Guidance, Faculty of Humanities, University of Bojnord, Bojnord, Iran

Received: 2018-07-13 Accepted : 2019-07-05 Published : 2019-08-23

Keywords: orphan, Fear of Negative Evaluation, Acceptance and commitment group therapy,

Abstract :

The purpose of this study was to investigate The Effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Group Therapy on Fear of Negative Evaluation in Social anxiety Disorder of orphaned adolescent girls. The method of study was semi-experimental with unequal control. The statistical population of the study is all 10-20 year-old orphaned and unsupervised adolescent girls in the two centers of welfare in Mashhad (Ali’s Golestan and Sofraye Sakhavat) in year 2017. The sample consisted of 16 people who were selected by availability sampling that acquired a high grade on the pretest of the questionnaire of social anxeity Kanwar (2000) and unrandomly allocated into eight girls from each center the experimental and eight girls from other center control groups. Then, the Acceptance and Commitment therapy was performed in during 10 sessions for the experimental group. Finally, the post-test was taken from both the experimental and control groups. SPSS-21 software and multivariate analysis of variance analysis of differential scores were used to analyze the data. Findings show that of Acceptance and Commitment group therapy has been effective in reducing Fear of Negative Evaluation in the experimental group than the control group (P