Evolution of the effectiveness of treatment with acceptance and commitment on five factors of personality and impulsivity with borderline personality disorder

The aim of this study was to the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy on five personality factors and impulsivity components in borderline personality disorder. The research method was A-B-A single-subject design. The statistical population included all people with borderline personality disorder who were referred to the outpatient department of Zare Psychiatric Hospital and Mana Sari Clinic during June 2019 From, among them, 3 people were selected by available sampling method and treated for 40 sessions got. Data were collected in three stages of baseline, treatment, and follow-up over 11 months using the Barat BIS Impulsivity Questionnaire (Barat et al., 2004) and the five NEO personality factors (McCreery and Costa, 2004). For statistical analysis, the graph analysis method, stable change, was used. Analysis of the results in the treatment phase was seen in the first person in the agreement variable, in the second person in the variables of agreement, nervousness, total impulsivity score, and in the third person in the variables of cognitive impulsivity, motor impulsivity, and total impulsivity score. In the follow-up phase, changes in impulsive components were seen in the first person, impulsive components in the second person, and impulsive components in the third person in the variables of agreement, nervousness. It can be concluded that treatment based on acceptance and commitment for a period of 10 months can cause significant changes in people with borderline personality, more research is needed to generalize the results of treatment.