Distress, social anxiety, cognitive avoidance, and behavioral flexibility. Elaboration of physical symptoms for psychological reasons
Conditions
Interventions
Intervention 1: Intervention group: Intervention group: In this design, subjects are measured before the implementation of the independent variable (pre-test), then the experimental intervention or in
Sponsors
Islamic Azad University
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
Female
Age
13 Years to 14 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: No serious physical illness Social anxiety No substance use Signing a written consent form to participate in the research and adhere to treatment
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Concurrent participation in other psychological treatments Having illnesses such as substance abuse and psychotic disorder
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), abbreviated as AC, is a third-wave behavioral therapy that explicitly adopts this approach (changing the function of thoughts and feelings rather than changing their form, content, or frequency) that has six central processes that lead to psychological flexibility; these six processes are: acceptance, fault-finding of the self as a context, connection to the present, values, and committed action (Forman & Herbert, 2018). Also, the main emphasis of this therapy is on reducing the intensity and frequency of distressing emotions and thoughts (Flaxman et al., 2010). In the present study, AC sessions were prepared based on the book AC by Eifert and Forsyth (2005) and were implemented in an 8-week period with 90-minute sessions, two sessions per week for the experimental group. This protocol has been translated by Feizi et al. (2019). Timepoint: 1. People in the experimental group participated in training courses for about a month. The experimental group received acceptance and commitment therapy in 8 90-minute sessions, two sessions per week. Also, no intervention was performed for the control group. However, to prevent threats to the internal validity of the test, the control group was promised that the intervention would be implemented for them after the end of the study. After the end of the study, they received the intervention.2. After completing the training course, both experimental and control groups were re-assessed with questionnaires that measured dependent variables (social anxiety, distress tolerance, cognitive avoidance, and behavioral flexibility) as a post-test. Finally, after one month of the post-test, both groups were re-assessed to examine the continuity of the effects of the interventions on the experimental group. Method of measurement: Social Anxiety Inventory, Distress Tolerance Questionnaire, Cognitive Avoidance Questionnaire. | — |
Countries
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Contacts
Public ContactYasna rashidi
Islamic Azad University
Outcome results
None listed