The effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on decreasing depression, anger and anxiety of women prisoners

Aim: This study examined the effect of mindfulnessbased cognitive therapy in reducing anger¡ anxiety and depression in women''s prison in Ahwaz.
This experimental study with pretest-posttest control group. The experimental group for 8 sessions¡ each session 2 hours were exposed to mindfulness training and re-post test for both test and control groups was carried out.
Analysis of data using multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) and the level of significance (05/0 = α) showed that mindfulness-based cognitive therapy reduced anger¡ anxiety and depression in prison.
The results showed that treatment mindfulness metacognition and prevent rumination through the reforms and changes in thinking and actions¡ improves the mental state of the people.