Comparison of the effect of group counseling based on Spirituality-based Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) on Reducing Demoralization of the Elderly

Abstract

Considering the increasing population of the elderly and the need to pay attention to their health issues and finding effective therapeutic methods, the present study was aimed at a Comparison of the effect Spirituality-based Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) on Reducing Demoralization of the Elderly people Done. The method of this study is a pretest-posttest with a control group. The population of the study included all elderly residents of elderly homes in Zabol in the year of 1397-98, which 36 people (three groups of 12) from the elderly with the available method and randomly divided into two experimental and one control groups. Then, Galanter & Siegel Spirituality Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Therapeutic plans were held at weekly meetings for 90 minutes, and after two months of post-test, a follow-up test was conducted. To collect the data, Kissan et al. demoralization scale used, for analyzing the data, multivariate analysis of covariance analysis was used. The results showed that both methods of spirituality therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy have an effect on decreasing the demoralization of the elderly, and this effect is observed during the follow-up period (p <0.01). A comparison of two therapeutic methods, however, showed that the spiritual therapy method had a more effective effect on demoralization than the acceptance and commitment treatment (p <0.01). Based on the results, it can be concluded that the use of spiritual-based therapeutic methods due to cultural and religious affiliation can be more effective than other therapeutic methods, including acceptance therapy and commitment to reducing demoralization in the elderly.

Keywords

• spirituality therapy
• acceptance
• and attraction (act)
• demoralization
• elderly