Psychology: Techniques and Application ›› 2019, Vol. 7 ›› Issue (11): 648-657.doi: 10.16842/j.cnki.issn2095-5588.2019.11.002

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Intervention Effect of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Group Treatment on Improving Mental Health of College Students

  

  1. (1 Peking University Hospital, Beijing 100871, China) (2 School of education, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison 53705, USA) (3 Capital Institute for Basic Education, Beijing Institute of Education, Beijing 100120, China)
  • Online:2019-11-01 Published:2019-11-01

Abstract: In order to investigate the immediate effects, long-term effects and mechanisms of acceptance commitment therapy group treatment on the mental health of college students, 20 college students were selected as the intervention group to receive group treatment of acceptance commitment therapy and 29 college students were recruited as the control group which no group intervention was adopted. The Beck Depression Scale, the Beck Anxiety Scale, the General Health Scale, the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire, and the Cognitive Integration Questionnaire were used to measure the two groups before and after the intervention and the intervention group was re-measured after three months. The intervention group showed significant improvement in depression, selfesteem, mental health, empirical avoidance, and cognitive fusion. Compared with the control group, the intervention group had significant decrease in the depression and general mental health scores, and was marginally significant in cognitive fusion. The group treatment of acceptance and commitment therapy can effectively improve college students mental health status. The two important factors, experiential avoidance and cognitive fusion, had no effect on depression, but had important predictive effect on the mental health.

Key words: acceptance and commitment therapy, group treatment, college students, mental health

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  • B849
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