Abstract
The present study aimed to determine the effectiveness of the “Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)” in reducing symptoms of anxiety in adolescent girls in Tehran. 30 girls of 14 and 18 years of age, who were referrers to the Ertebat ,Hamdardi ,Movaffaghiat Psychology Center of Tehran because of symptoms of anxiety, were selected and randomly assigned to a test group and a control group each one including 15 patients. The Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Protocol of 12 sessions were conducted on the experimental group. The control group received no intervention. The research method used in the study was the pretest- posttest semi-experimental method with the control group. To measure the symptoms of anxiety in the study, the dass-42 questionnaires were used and to analyze the data the SPANQVA test was applied. The data analysis results indicated the effectiveness of the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in reducing the adolescent girls’ symptoms of anxiety. The results indicate that the improvement of psychological flexibility which is the major component of the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy has a considerable effect on the dependent variable.
Highlights
General anxiety disorder (GDA)3, is one of the most frequent anxiety disorders having a high simultaneousness with the other anxiety disorders
We are confronted with the 3rd generation of those therapies, which they can be called and classified under the general title of the models based on acceptance; Such as acceptance & commitment therapy (ACT)14, these therapies are trying to increase psychological relation/link of the individual with thoughts & sensibilities/sympathies (Izadi & Abedi, 2014)
In ACT the essential goal is creating psychological flexibility; i.e. producing practical ability to choose among different options whichever is more appropriate, rather than an action merely for avoiding the thoughts, sympathies & sensibilities, impressions, and or disturbing inclinations/tendencies, which is imposed with biasing on the individual
Summary
The investigation method is of the type semi-test, with a pre-test and post-test plan, on the control group. The available sampling method is together with random substitution in the control and test groups. In this research in order for collecting data, questionnaire was employed. This scale was developed by Lavy bund and Lavybundin 1995. Studies have been done by Lavy bund and Lavy bund (1995), illustrates that retest reliability for Ancillary infra structures were 81% for stress 79% for anxiety, 71% for depression, respectively. Validity for beek anxiety inventory and beek depression inventory with correlation coefficients, were 81%and74%respectively. This scale has suitable reliability to use in research and Diagnostic activities
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