Studying the effectiveness of self-compassion therapy on distress tolerance, cognitive avoidance, depression and emotional resilience of depressed women referred to psychological counseling centers.

The purpose of this study was to study the effectiveness of self-compassion therapy on distress tolerance, cognitive avoidance, depression, and emotional resilience of depressed women referring to psychological counseling centers.

A randomized, open-label, controlled clinical trial was conducted on 40 patients for randomization.

40 women with depressive disorder will be randomly selected from four counseling and psychological service centers in Ahvaz, 20 of whom will be assigned to the experimental group and 20 to the control group. After the groups were formed, the subjects were led to special rooms and given questionnaires to measure the variables as a pre-test. After completing the training course, both the experimental and control groups were re-measured with questionnaires to measure the variables as a post-test.

Criteria for entering the study: 1- Female gender 2- Marriage period of maximum 3 years 3- No serious physical or mental illness 4- Score between 20 and 28 on the Beck Depression Inventory Exclusion criteria: 1- Presence of concurrent mental disorders, psychosis spectrum disorders, and substance abuse 2- Absence of more than two sessions

After forming the groups, the subjects were led to special rooms and given questionnaires to measure the variables as a pre-test. The people in the experimental group participated in training courses for about 1 month and received compassion-focused therapy intervention in 8 90-minute sessions, two sessions per week. There was no intervention for the control group. After completing the training course, both the experimental and control groups were re-assessed with questionnaires to measure the variables as a post-test.

Self-Compassion Therapy, Distress Tolerance, Cognitive Avoidance, Depression, Emotional Resilience

Among all the counseling and psychological service centers in Ahvaz, four centers were selected at random, and patients with depressive disorder who referred to these four centers for treatment and had received a diagnosis of depression from a psychiatrist and clinical specialist were selected. Of course, to ensure correct diagnosis, a diagnosis of depression was made based on the fifth edition of the Classification of Mental Disorders using a structured checklist. 67 patients were eligible (patients whose depression score was between 20 and 28 according to the Beck Depression Inventory and were in the moderate depression group. Also, these patients are in the drug treatment stage), of which 5 were unwilling to participate. Finally, 40 women were randomly selected (lottery) and considered as a sample, 20 of whom were assigned to the experimental group and 20 to the control group by simple random selection (lottery).