Comparison of Metacognitive Therapy and its Techniques, and acceptance and commitment therapy on the mind wandering adolescent

The purpose of this study was to compare metacognitive therapy and its techniques (attention training, Situational attention refocusing), and acceptance and commitment therapy on the mind wandering adolescents. The research method was experimental and the statistical population included 20837 adolescent girls in second grade secondary schools of Karaj in the academic year 1396-1397. A randomized multistage cluster sampling method was used to select 70 people who had the lowest score in the amount of wandering mindedness based on the measurement tool of the wandering minds of Marazik et al. (2013). They were randomly assigned to five groups based on the criteria of the research. they got. Metacognitive Therapies, Attention training, Situational attention refocusing, (Mohamad KHani, 2013) and Acceptance and Commitment therapy (Bond, Hayes, 2014) During 10 Sessions A weekly, 90-Minute test was performed individually for experimental groups. Data were analyzed using one-way covariance analysis. The results showed that all four treatments are effective in decreasing the amount of mentally minded adolescents, and the effectiveness of metacognitive therapy is more than other treatments. This effect was also sustained in the 3-month follow-up phase.