The effectiveness of acceptance and commitment based therapy on social adjustment, mental turmoil and self-rupturing among people with transgender sexual disorder

Gender identity disorders (GID) are heterogeneous disorders that may be influenced by culture and social norms The purpose of the present research was to study the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment based therapy on social adjustment, mental turmoil and self-rupturing among people with transgender sexual disorder, this research was a semi-experimental. The sample of the research included 30 individuals with Transgender sexual disorder in well-being organization of north Khorasan, they were selected by available sampling and were placed randomly in experimental and control group randomly. Data were obtained by mental health questionnaire SCL-25, self-rupturing questionnaire of Sadegh-zade et al. (2006), and Bell social adjustment inventory (1961). Findings were analyzed by SPSS software and multi-variate covariance analysis test. The results show that acceptance and commitment based therapy significantly promoted social adjustment and mental turmoil and also reduced self-rupturing among people with transgender sexual disorder (P<0.01). according to the findings of the research it can be said that utilizing new treatments in psychotherapy and counseling such as acceptance and commitment based therapy may be effective on improving mental state of people with transgender sexual disorder, so due to their special problems in Iran it is necessary to utilize such treatments for them.