1- Ardabil - Azad University
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Background and purpose: Adolescence is one of the most sensitive and important periods in a person's life. Homelessness refers to the lack of an effective relationship between a teenager and his parents, which includes a wide range of teenagers without a father, teenagers from displaced families, boarding teenagers, homeless teenagers, teenagers and those unable to effectively supervise the youth. Among the obvious examples of mental health disorder is suicide, which is one of the painful phenomena that the society faces during adolescence. Feeling alone as a causal factor in the general health and well-being of adolescents has serious immediate and long-term consequences. People's lives have an essential role in the occurrence of many mental disorders and abnormalities, according to therapists, so that not paying attention to this important issue and solving it ineffectively in people will cause unbearable damages, especially in the mental, psychological and emotional fields. had Self-actualization is also a model of how a person behaves to achieve happiness, health and healthy and normal activity. A person's level of self-awareness plays an important role in getting rid of the feeling of loneliness and psychological disorders, on which cognitive therapy of mindfulness can be effective. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of cognitive therapy based on mindfulness on the level of self-actualization, loneliness, and suicidal tendencies of homeless male adolescents.
Research method: The current research method was semi-experimental (pre-test-post-test design with a control group). The statistical population included all 213 homeless male adolescents, random sampling method was used to select the research sample. And the number of 30 qualified volunteers were placed in two experimental and control groups (15 people in each group). After the pre-test, mindfulness interventions were conducted based on the bibliographic guide of mindfulness-based therapy, Segal et al. (2018), in ten 60-minute sessions and at the end of the post-test sessions. . Self-actualization questionnaire (Ismail Khani et al., 1380), feeling of loneliness (Russell et al., 1980) and suicidal tendency (Beck, 1991) were used to collect data. The criteria for entering the research include; A feeling of loneliness and a high suicidal tendency based on the pre-test scores, a teenager aged 13 to 19 years old, being a native of Garami city, not suffering from mental diseases, not suffering from physical diseases, voluntary willingness to participate in the study, having sufficient reading literacy and Writing to complete the questionnaires, verbal communication ability and the informed consent of the supervisor, and the criteria for exiting the research were simultaneous participation in other psychotherapy, absence of more than three sessions. The data were analyzed using spss22 software and variance analysis 0.05 significance were analyzed.
Findings: The results showed that there was no significant difference between the average post-test scores of the control and experimental groups in the variable of self-actualization. However, the average scores of the variables of loneliness and suicidal tendency were (p = 0.008) and (p < 0.001) in the post-test compared to the pre-test, there was a decrease, which indicated the effectiveness of the mindfulness intervention on feelings of loneliness and suicidal tendencies..
Conclusion: Based on the findings, the cognitive therapy training program based on mindfulness, despite not being effective in self-actualization, can be effective in treating and reducing the feeling of loneliness and suicidal tendencies in people.
Research method: The current research method was semi-experimental (pre-test-post-test design with a control group). The statistical population included all 213 homeless male adolescents, random sampling method was used to select the research sample. And the number of 30 qualified volunteers were placed in two experimental and control groups (15 people in each group). After the pre-test, mindfulness interventions were conducted based on the bibliographic guide of mindfulness-based therapy, Segal et al. (2018), in ten 60-minute sessions and at the end of the post-test sessions. . Self-actualization questionnaire (Ismail Khani et al., 1380), feeling of loneliness (Russell et al., 1980) and suicidal tendency (Beck, 1991) were used to collect data. The criteria for entering the research include; A feeling of loneliness and a high suicidal tendency based on the pre-test scores, a teenager aged 13 to 19 years old, being a native of Garami city, not suffering from mental diseases, not suffering from physical diseases, voluntary willingness to participate in the study, having sufficient reading literacy and Writing to complete the questionnaires, verbal communication ability and the informed consent of the supervisor, and the criteria for exiting the research were simultaneous participation in other psychotherapy, absence of more than three sessions. The data were analyzed using spss22 software and variance analysis 0.05 significance were analyzed.
Findings: The results showed that there was no significant difference between the average post-test scores of the control and experimental groups in the variable of self-actualization. However, the average scores of the variables of loneliness and suicidal tendency were (p = 0.008) and (p < 0.001) in the post-test compared to the pre-test, there was a decrease, which indicated the effectiveness of the mindfulness intervention on feelings of loneliness and suicidal tendencies..
Conclusion: Based on the findings, the cognitive therapy training program based on mindfulness, despite not being effective in self-actualization, can be effective in treating and reducing the feeling of loneliness and suicidal tendencies in people.
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