Effect of Self-compassion (CFT) therapy on the feelings of loneliness, shame and guilt of female applicants for divorce

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of CFT-based interventions on the feelings of loneliness, shame and guilty of female applicants for divorce. The statistical population of this study included all women who were referred to the Kerman Counseling and Psychological Services Center for divorce counseling. Through the available sampling method, 30 people who scored the highest scores in loneliness tools by Russell et al. (1980) and Self-conscious affect Roth et al. (2006) were selected as sample subjects and randomly assigned to two groups of experimental and control each including 15 subjects The research data were collected in three stages before intervention, immediately after intervention, and three months after the intervention. Data were analyzed using mixed variance analysis. The results showed that self-compassion-based interventions have a significant effect on the feelings of loneliness, shame and guilt of female applicants for divorce. The findings of this study can be used as part of divorce interventions.