The effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) on obsessions-compulsions in girl adolescents with body dysmorphic disorder

Journal Title: Shenakht Journal of Psychology and Psychiatry - Year 2016, Vol 2, Issue 4

Abstract

Introduction: Body dysmorphic disorder is one of the common disorders in which adolescents by a preoccupation with physical defects in the body is identified. Purpose: The aim of this research was to evaluate The effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) on obsessions-compulsions in najafabad girl adolescents with body dysmorphic disorder. Methods: In this clinical trial and randomly on girls in the city of Najafabad in 2014 on the basis of DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criteria for BDD and were randomly assigned to either experimental or control group. The Yale-Brown obsessive compulsive scale modified for body dysmorphic disorder (BDD-YBOCS). The experimental group received 8 weekly acceptance and commitment therapy intervention sessions. The control group was in the waiting list until end of the follow up. The same measures were used for post-test and follow up. It was utilized multivariate analysis of covariance method using SPSS.18 for analysis of data. Funding: the result of significant differenee of body dissatisfaction between control and experimental groups(P < 0/01). also, the result revealed a significant diffirences of obssessions and compulsions between control and experimental groups. Results:Acceptance and commitment therapy and has effect on obsessions-compulsions adolescents with body dysmorphic disorder

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Azam habibollahi, Mohammad Soltanizadeh

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Azam habibollahi, Mohammad Soltanizadeh (2016). The effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) on obsessions-compulsions in girl adolescents with body dysmorphic disorder. Shenakht Journal of Psychology and Psychiatry, 2(4), 1-10. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-268462