Effect of Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) on level of Depression and Self- compassion
Journal Title: INDIAN JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH - Year 2018, Vol 5, Issue 4
Abstract
Background and Objectives: Depression conceptualizes variety of psychic and somatic syndromes and known as the ‘common cold’ of mental illness. Compassion Focused Therapy pays particular attention to the ability to generate affiliative motives, behaviors and emotions. Focusing on the experience and development of compassion has been found to reduce depression and self-criticism. The main aim of this study was to assess the efficacy of Compassion Focused Therapy on level of depression and self-compassion among patients with depression at selected hospitals of Indore. Methods: A Quasi- experimental pre-test, post-test control group design was adopted. The population consisted of 12 patients with depression, those who were on antidepressants, were selected through nonprobability purposive sampling, then assigned 6 in each experimental and control group. Beck’s Depression Inventory II and Neff’s self-compassion scale were used for assessment of level of depression and selfcompassion. Compassion Focused Therapy was administered on experimental group for 15 days, followed by post -test and one month follow up. Control group was only on pharmacotherapy. The effect of compassion focused therapy computed by paired t-test. Results: The mean score of level of depression in experimental group was 25.83 which had cut-down to 14.17 at post -test and 10.33 at one month follow up. Similarly mean pre- test score of level of selfcompassion in experimental patients was 2.54 which increased to 3.52 at post-test and 3.69 at one month follow up. Conclusion:The major finding of the study reveals that Compassion Focused Therapy found efficient in reducing the level of depression and improving self-compassion.
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Vaishali Tiwari, Blessy Antony, M. K. Acharya
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- EP ID EP444183
- DOI 10.30877/IJMH.5.4.2018.443-452
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