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The Effect Of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy On Alexithymia, Experiential Avoidance And Rumination In People With Non-Suicidal Self-Injury
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Nastaran Etemadi Rad   , Samane Maleki , Najmeh Eftekhari * , Samaneh Zarei |
| Farvardin Institute of Higher Education Qaemshahr, Mazandaran, Iran. & Farvardin Institute of Higher Education Qaemshahr, Mazandaran, Iran. , eftekharnajmeh@gmail.com. |
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Introduction: Considering the prevalence and consequences of non-suicidal self-injury, it is necessary to identify and treat the mechanisms involved in NSSI. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy specifically targets mechanisms thought to be involved in the initiation and maintenance of NSSI; therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the effect of Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on alexithymia, experiential avoidance and rumination in people with non-suicidal self-injury.
Methods: The current study was a semi-experimental type with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. Among the people referring to the clinics and counseling centers in Tehran, 30 people who had the highest score in the non-suicidal self-injury questionnaire were selected by convenience sampling and randomly divided into two experimental groups and The control group (15 people) was replaced. The experimental group received 8 sessions of Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, but the control group did not receive any specific intervention. The research tools were: nonsuicidal self-injury questionnaire, Toronto Alexithymia Scale, Acceptance and Action Questionnaire, Ruminative Response Scale. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 23 software and Multivariate analysis of covariance analysis method.
Results: The results indicate the significant effect of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy in reducing alexithymia, experiential avoidance and rumination in people with non-suicidal self-injury in the post-test stage (P<0.05).
Conclusions: mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, by directly addressing the mechanisms involved in the initiation and maintenance of non-suicidal self-injury, offers great promise as a transdiagnostic therapy that can be a successful intervention for individuals who engage in self-injurious behaviors. Therefore, according to the obtained findings, therapists can use this intervention to reduce alexithymia, experiential avoidance and rumination in people with non-suicidal self-injury.
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| Keywords: Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, alexithymia, experiential avoidance, rumination, non-suicidal self-injury. |
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Received: 2024/05/18 | Accepted: 2024/07/23 | Published: 2024/07/31 | ePublished: 2024/07/31
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