A Pilot Study Examining the Effect of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as Parent Counseling

Abstract There is some scientific evidence to support the applicability and preliminary effects of ACT as a parent intervention but more research needed. In this pilot research, Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) provided counseling therapy in order increase psychological flexibility which turn helps parents choose attuned parenting behavior, invest helpful parent-child relationship, deal with feelings incompetence, cope their own psychopathology. developed for children (3–18 years old) psychiatric problems. The mean age ( n = 101) was 47.1 (range 30–66). A repeated measures design used including pretreatment, posttreatment, 6-month follow-up measurements. main outcomes were (psychological flexibility, parental inflexibility, cognitive fusion). Secondary included quality interaction, competence, psychopathology, satisfaction treatment program. This first study we know that showed statistically significant improvements on behavior (except behavioral control), relations, internalizing psychopathology directly after treatment. At follow-up, significantly less conflicts, found. However, not clinically significant, calculated RCI. No control group uncontrolled findings indicate can help flexible effective behavior.