Comparison the Effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) on resiliency and psychological well-being Individuals Diagnosed with HIV

The aim of this research was to compare the effect of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) on resiliency and psychological well-being of Individuals diagnosed with HIV. The method of this research was semi-experimental and included with pretest- posttest study with two experimental and one control groups. The statistical population included all the referrers to Tehran center of behavioral disorders in the period of Oct 2017 to Feb 2018 diagnosed with HIV positive. Afterward, 45 subjects selected voluntarily and randomly divided into 3 groups. One of the experimental groups underwent ACT for 8 Session of 120 minutes and another received 8 sessions of 120 minutes of CFT. The control group did not receive any intervention. To evaluate the participants, Connor and Davidson Resiliency (2003) and Ryff (1989) Psychological well- being scale were used. In order to analyze the data, descriptive statistics, and for deduce, Covariance analysis and Sidak follow-up tests were used. The results showed that both therapies positively affected the tolerance and psychological well-being of those suffering from HIV positive (p<0.05). However, the effect on the tolerance variable of ACT was more noticeable, an effect that was not observed with such intensity in CFT (p<0.05).