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

Authors and Affiliations

Azam habibollahi, Mohammad Soltanizadeh

Keywords

Related Articles

The Relationship between Body Image and Cognitive Distortions with Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa in Patients with Depression

Background and aim: Depression is a recurrent disorder with implications for social, economic, physical and psychological aspects. One of these negative consequences is the eating disorders. Therefore, this study was per...

The effect of counseiing-based on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) on the quality of life of women attending the cultural centers of the city

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of counseling-based acceptance and commitment (ACT) on the quality of life of women referred to the cultural centers of the city. This study was a quasi-experimenta...

The relationship between cell-phone addiction with the academic achievement motivation and academic performance of students in Khash Baluchestan

Introduction: Excessive use of cell-phones can lead to dependency and have negative consequences for students and their academic achievement motivation. Aim: This study has carried out to investigate the relationship bet...

Study of life satisfaction among students of University of Mazandaran and its relationship with personality dimensions

Introduction: Life satisfaction is so important that it can be said that it is the goal of life. However, reports show life satisfaction is low among Iranian students. The result of this issue, for example, is leaving th...

Effectiveness emotion regulation training on reduction of symptoms depression students

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the efficacy emotion regulation training in reducing symptoms of depression in students. Method: The method of this research was quasi-experimental. For this purpose...

Download PDF file
  • EP ID EP268462
  • DOI -
  • Views 159
  • Downloads 0

How To Cite

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