Abstract

Acceptance and commitment therapy is one of the effective methods to reduce anger and depression. The present study was conducted with the aim of the effect of acceptance and commitment therapy on the rumination of anger and learned helplessness in drug dependent people. The method of this research was semi-experimental and was carried out using a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. The sample of this study consisted of 30 people (15 people in the experimental group and 15 people in the control group) from drug addicts who were selected from the addiction treatment centers of Arak city by purposive sampling method. The experimental group underwent acceptance and commitment therapy for 8 sessions, and the control group did not receive any training. In this research, anger rumination and document style scales were used. To analyze the data, univariate covariance analysis was used. The findings showed that the treatment based on acceptance and commitment had a significant effect on rumination anger (F=15.48, p<0.01) and learned helplessness (F=9.64, p<0.01) of substance dependent people and its amount has reduced According to the results of this research, it can be said that treatment based on acceptance and commitment is effective on the rumination of anger and learned helplessness in people dependent on substances and the implementation of this approach in addiction treatment centers can reduce rumination and learned helplessness in people dependent on The material helps.