The effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy for social anxiety disorder: a randomized clinical trial

Khoramnia, Samad; Bavafa, Amir; Jaberghaderi, Nasrin; Parvizifard, Aliakbar; Foroughi, Aliakbar; Ahmadi, Mojtaba; Amiri, Shahram

doi:10.1590/2237-6089-2019-0003

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“…The present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of ACT on anxiety, cognitive avoidance, and empathy among couples visiting counseling centers [31], and Heydari et al [32]. Khoramnia et al [31] reported that ACT might be an appropriate psychological intervention for reducing external shame, social anxiety, and difficulty in emotion regulation and its components and helping the individuals improve psychological flexibility. Heydari et al [32] showed that ACT reduced anxiety and depression in psychiatric center staff.…”

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Effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy on Anxiety, Cognitive Avoidance, and Empathy of Couples Visiting Counseling Centers in Ahvaz City, Iran

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Background: Anxiety can reduce the couples’ self-confidence and damage their mental health. The present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) on anxiety, cognitive avoidance, and empathy among couples visiting counseling centers in Ahvaz City, Iran, in 2020. Methods: The research method was quasi-experimental with a pre-test, post-test design, follow-up, and a control group. The statistical population consisted of all couples with low marital adjustment who were referred to the psychological centers of Ahvaz in 2019. Using a convenience sampling method, 30 participants were selected and randomly divided into experimental and control groups (n=15 per group). The research instruments included the symptom checklist-90-revised, the cognitive avoidance questionnaire, and the basic empathy scale. The experimental group underwent eight 90-min sessions (one session per week) of ACT, and the control group did not receive any intervention. The follow-up was performed after 45 days. Repeated-measures ANOVA was used to analyze the data in SPSS. Results: ACT effectively decreased anxiety and cognitive avoidance and increased empathy among couples in the experimental group (P<0.001). The Mean±SD pre-test and post-test scores of anxiety in the experimental group were 23.33±2.89 and 18.93±3.36, respectively, which decreased compared to the post-test mean score (24.27±2.96) of the control group. Conclusion: ACT decreased anxiety and cognitive avoidance and significantly increased empathy in married individuals. ACT can improve empathy in couples involved in marital conflicts.

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“…Because the age of college students is in a sensitive stage, the artistic treatment of songs should be conducted by mutual discussion between teachers and students, and a variety of comprehensive methods should be used in the performance of songs. In terms of rehearsal methods, teaching content, music selection, etc., it is necessary to use rich and flexible teaching methods and choose beautiful music that conform to the aesthetic tastes of today's young people, and choreography methods such as singing and dancing, so that college students can establish a good relationship with each other [ 36 ].…”

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Effect of Multivoice Chorus on Interpersonal Communication Disorder

Lei

2022

Occupational Therapy International

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Objective. As a type of music therapy, multipart chorus does not have high requirements for participants, and the basic level can be high or low. For college students, it is more likely to participate. Exploring the effect of multivoice chorus intervention on college students’ mental health can provide reference for school psychological correction work. This study uses multivoice chorus as a means, combined with certain group psychological counseling techniques, to try to explore a new model for improving the mental health of college students. Method. Fifty college students in prison were selected as subjects and randomly divided into the control group and experimental group. The multivoice chorus method was used to conduct an intervention test on the mental health of the college students in the experimental group, and the observation was carried out for 3 months. Before and after the intervention, the anxiety self-rating scale, the trust scale, the social avoidance and distress scale, the shyness scale, the UCLA loneliness scale, and the college student psychological test personality subtest were used for psychological testing and evaluation. Results/Discussion. College students can actively recognize and reflect on their own behavior, and objectively evaluate others. Through the cognition and management of emotions, college students can handle personal emotions well in interpersonal communication. In the later stage of multivoice chorus, they can help each other, establish a mutual assistance system, help each other, and discuss and learn interpersonal communication skills together, so that college students can learn good interpersonal communication experience and skills from others in various interactions, achieve self-help, and promote college students to work together. In the process of interfering with interpersonal communication disorder, simple psychological counseling has also improved the phenomenon of interpersonal communication disorder, but the experimental effect is far from the effect of the combination of music education and psychological counseling, and it is relatively unstable in the stability test. In the specific operation, in the purely psychological counseling process, college students with interpersonal barriers do not actively cooperate with the intervention, the operating atmosphere is relatively dull, and the teachers are time-consuming and labor-intensive during the psychological counseling process, but the results are minimal. The only effect is also worn out within a few weeks, and the stability is poor. It can be seen that music education has played a pivotal role as a medium in the intervention of interpersonal communication disorders, which can make the intervention process easier, more effective, and more stable.

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“…The findings revealed that after the psychoeducation program, they experienced a decrease in their problems in this area by operating the mechanisms of acceptance, non-avoidance, healthy conflict and crisis management, staying in the moment, self-knowledge, and being authentic. Several previous reports have also shown that ACT-based interventions are effective in dealing with anxiety (A-Tjak et al, 2015;Arch, Wolitzky-Taylor, Eifert & Craske, 2012;Khorammia et al, 2020;Swain, Hancock, Hainsworth & Bowmanb, 2013).…”

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A Mixed-Method Study Exploring the Effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Based Group Psychoeducation Program on Psychological Flexibility

Kırca

Ekşi

2020

Spiritual Psychology and Counseling

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This study aims to develop, implement, and test the effectiveness of an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy-based psychoeducation program for fostering psychological flexibility. The study employed a convergent mixed methods design. For the quantitative phase, the pre-test post-test control group experimental design was used, while in the qualitative phase, a thematic analysis was conducted. The study group consisted of 13 first-year students of the Department of Guidance and Counseling, and Psychology, aged between 18-22, 8 of whom are in the experiment group, and 5 in the control group. The students participated in 8 sessions of 90 minutes. Before and after the psychoeducation, the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II was administered to the students and they were also asked to answer the formerly specified open-ended questions in writing. Mann Whitney U and Wilcoxon Signed Ranks tests were used for statistical analysis; while thematic analysis was used for the qualitative component of the study. Quantitative findings showed that psychoeducation significantly increased psychological flexibility, but the change was not at a level to differ from the control group; while qualitative findings revealed that participants experienced changes in 10 themes after psychoeducation. These themes are Being Present, Self-Control, Value-Based Actions, Defusion and Coping with Feelings and Thoughts, Knowledge of Self and Others, Acceptance, Non-Avoidance, Conflict and Crisis Management, Authenticity, and Anxiety. The quantitative and qualitative findings are discussed in light of the relevant literature.

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The effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy for social anxiety disorder: a randomized clinical trial

Cited by 30 publications

References 41 publications

Effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy on Anxiety, Cognitive Avoidance, and Empathy of Couples Visiting Counseling Centers in Ahvaz City, Iran

Effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy on Anxiety, Cognitive Avoidance, and Empathy of Couples Visiting Counseling Centers in Ahvaz City, Iran

Effect of Multivoice Chorus on Interpersonal Communication Disorder

A Mixed-Method Study Exploring the Effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Based Group Psychoeducation Program on Psychological Flexibility

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