جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « درمان شناختی - وجودی » در نشریات گروه « روانشناسی »

This study was conducted to compare the effectiveness of cognitive- existential and mind- based cognitive- existential therapy on the fear of cancer recurrence and its components in women with breast cancer. The method of the present study is quasi-experimental and pretest-posttest with a control group. The statistical population of this study included all women with breast cancer referred to Dezful Cancer Treatment Center who were selected by the available sampling method. according to the inclusion criteria, 45 people were selected as a sample and randomly divided into three groups existential-cognitive group therapy, mindfulness-based existential-cognitive group therapy, and a control group was assigned. Used to collect data Demoralization Scale (Kissane et al., 2004) and Temporal Experience of Pleasure Scale (Gard et al.,  2006). The results of the multivariate analysis of covariance showed that there was a statistically significant difference between demoralization and pleasure experience in the experimental and control groups (P<0.001). Also, the results of the Bonferroni test showed that mindfulness–based existential-cognitive therapy further reduces the Demoralization in breast cancer survivors and increases the experience of pleasure in these people (P<0.001). As a result, by adding mindfulness exercises to existential-cognitive therapy, Demoralization can be further reduced and the  Experience of Pleasure can be increased.

Various interventional studies have been conducted by the aim of improving mental health among divorced female heads of household, but no research has been conducted with the aim of comparing the effectiveness of cognitive-existential therapy and compassion-focused therapy on psychological wellbeing of divorced female heads of household.

The present research was conducted by the aim of comparing the effectiveness of cognitive-existential therapy and compassion-focused therapy on psychological wellbeing of divorced female heads of household.

The current study was conducted by semi-experimental method in which a pretest-posttest-follow up with control group design was used. The research population included all divorced women who were heads of household who were members of the Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation in the 19th district of Tehran, Iran. The study sample included 36 women who were selected by purposeful sampling method and, then, were assigned into two experiment groups and one control group (12 individuals per group) through random assignment method. The research tool was Ryff’s Psychological Wellbeing Scale (1989). For the first experiment group, the cognitive-existential therapy (Kissane, 2004, 2009), and for the second experiment group, the compassion focused therapy (Gilbert, 2009, 2014) were delivered in groups and in eight 120-minute sessions, but the control group received no intervention. The variance analysis test with repeated measures and the Bonferroni ad hoc test were used to analyze the data.

The results indicated that the cognitive-existential therapy and the compassion-focused therapy led to improvements in psychological wellbeing and all its components (acceptance of self, positive relations with others, self-autonomy, purposeful life, personal growth, environmental mastery) at the end of the intervention stage and in the follow-up stage. Moreover, the cognitive-existential therapy showed greater effectiveness on increasing psychological wellbeing and its components (p< 0/01) compared to the compassion-focused therapy.

According to the obtained results, psychologists and counselors are recommended to employ these two therapeutic approaches for reducing psychological problems among divorced women who are heads of household.