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Showing 2 results for Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Fahimeh Ardeshiri Lordejani, Salar Faramarzi, Tayyebeh Sharifi,
Volume 5, Issue 1 (9-2018)
Abstract
Introduction: The present study was conducted to investigate the Effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy on family performance and parent-child relationships of the parents of children with learning disability.
Method: The present study was quasi-experimental with pretest, posttest and control group design. The statistical population of the study included all the parents of the children with learning disability in the city of Isfahan in academic year 2016-17. Non-probable available sampling method and random putting were used in the present study in a way that 30 parents were selected through purposive and available method from those referred to Tamasha consultation center and they were randomly put into experimental and control groups. The experimental group received training intervention during two-and-a-half months in ten ninety-minute sessions while the people in the control group didn’t receive such intervention in the process of doing the study. The applied questionnaires included parent-child relationship questionnaire (Fine, Morland and Shobel, 1983), and family performance questionnaire (Nathan, Baldwin, and Bishop, 1983). The research data were analyzed through ANCOVA method via SPSS 24 software.
Findings: The data analysis results showed that acceptance and commitment therapy has been effective on family performance (P<0.001) and parent-child relationships (P<0.001) in the parents of the children with learning disability.
Conclusion: According to the findings of the present study it can be stated that acceptance and commitment therapy can be employed as efficient therapy to improve family performance and parent-child relationships of the parents of the children with learning disability.
, Ali Khademi, Reza Tasbihsazan Mashad,
Volume 5, Issue 4 (6-2019)
Abstract
Introduction: Regarding that cancerous children's mothers have a lot of care responsibility, this research was done to study the effectiveness of acceptance & commitment-based method of therapy on the happiness and psychological well-being of cancerous children's mothers.
Methods: The present study is a semi-experimental type of pre-test post-test design with a control and follow-up group. The statistical population of the study was mothers referring to Saba Institute in Boukan city in 1396. Using random sampling, 30 people were selected. Data collection tools were Oxford Happiness and psychological well-being questionnaires. The intervention was took place at 8 sessions and it was followed up 1 month later. Covariance was used to analyze the data.
Results: ACT is effective on the happiness of cancerous children's mothers. Furthermore, ACT has a meaningful effect on the happiness sub-scales such as satisfaction with life, self-satisfaction and self-esteem and One month after the intervention, it remained stable. It is also effective on the psychological well-being of cancerous children's mothers and all the sub-scales of psychological well-being; One month after the intervention, it remained stable too.
Conclusions: The results of this study showed that ACT is effective on the happiness and the psychological well-being of cancerous children's mothers. This intervention method can be used as an efficient and effective way to promote the happiness and well-being of mothers in Cancer Patients' Treatment Centers.
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