The effectiveness of Compassion-Based Therapy for Depressive Symptoms, Rumination, and Self-Compassion in Mothers with Mild Intellectual Disability Child

Introductoin:

 The purpose of the present study was to examine the efficacy of positive psychotherapy based on belief to good on happiness, psychological well-being and satisfaction with life in subclinical depression.

This research is semi-experimental and of pre-test-post-test type with control and follow-up groups. 30 mothers with children with mild disability child were selected by simple random sampling based on a lottery from the exceptional school of Semiram city and were placed in two control and experimental groups in the same way. The intervention sessions consisted of ten sessions performed for the experimental group. The data collection tool included Self-Compassion Scale (SCS), Neff (2003), Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II), 1961, and Rumination scale (RS), Nolan et al. (1991). These tools were given to both experimental and control groups, before and after the intervention and also during the follow-up period. Data were analyzed by SPSS-24 software, mean, standard deviation and multivariate analysis of covariance were used to analyze the data.

Findings from the present study showed that the experimental group (mothers with intellectually disabled children) compared to the control group, after the intervention, compassionate program to increase self-compassion (P >0.017) decreased rumination (P >0.001) and decreased depression (P> 0.038) in the mothers with intellectually disabled children. Also, the subjects' scores in the follow-up stage were stable on all scales.

It is important to provide therapeutic interventions to reduce the mental problems of mothers with intellectually disabled children, including depression and rumination, and it will lead to a more appropriate treatment of mothers with these children