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Efficacy of Compassion Focused Therapy on Life style and Self-Esteem in Wives of the Deceased Veterans

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Authors

Katayoun Tanhadoust 1
Rahim Hamidi Pour 2
Omid Amani 3

1 M.A. in family counseling, Counseling group, Humanities college, Islamic Azad University, Arak Branch, Arak, Iran.

2 PhD in counseling, Assistant Professor, Counseling group, Farhangian University, Hakim Ferdowsi Alborz college, Karaj,

3 PhD in clinical psychology, Clinical Psychology group, Educational Sciences and Psychology college, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract
The aim of this study was to examine the Effect of Compassion Focused Therapy on Life style and self-esteem in Wives of the deceased veterans. The study was semi-experimental study, 40 Wives of the deceased veterans in Isfahan were selected through available sampling method, and randomly divided into experimental and control groups. The study instruments were Lali lifestyle (2012) questionnaire and Rosenberg Self-Esteem Questionnaire (1967). Experimental group received 8 sessions of Compassion Focused and all subjects were evaluated 2 occations at pretest and posttest and stages. The gathered data was analyzed by a repeated-measure MANCOVA analysis. The results showed that the efficacy of Compassion Focused Therapy was significant on Life style in physical health, disease prevention, psychological health, spiritual health, social health, drug avoidance, drugs and alcohol, accident prevention and environmental health dimensions and also, was significant on Self-Esteem (p<0/05). This study showed that Compassion Focused Therapy plays a pivotal role in improving. This method is suitable intervention for improvement of psychological variables among Wives of the deceased veterans.
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