The Effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy(ACT) enriched with Compassion Focus Therapy(CFT) for high school males obsession with obsessive-compulsive disorder

The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) enriched with compassion for high school students’ obsession with obsessive-compulsive disorder in Isfahan. The research method was quasi-experimental based on a pre-test, post-test design and follow-up with control group. The statistical society were high school males with obsessive-compulsive disorder in Isfahan during the second semester of the academic year of 2015-2016; who were referred to Isfahan psychotherapy and counseling centers.They were 30 students who were selected by purposive sampling method. Then they were randomly divided into experimental (15 students and 15 parents) and control groups (15 students and 15 parents). Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) enriched with compassion was implemented for 2- hour 28 counseling sessions weekly, but the control group did not receive any intervention. The research instrument was obsessive-compulsive Yale - Brown Scale. Data was analyzed by using variance analysis of repeated measures. The results indicated that ACT enriched with compassion influenced on obsessive symptoms of high school males with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Therefore, the use of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) enriched with compassion is an effective treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder in high school males’ obsessions with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.