The Effectiveness of an Intervention Based on Acceptance and Commitment to Self-compassion, intimacy, and Couple Burnout

Drug addiction is one of the most important social deviations and the scope of its destructive effects is very important because its serious consequences do not only affect the addicted person, but the family and society will also be exposed to its destructive effects. the current research was conducted with the aim of investigating the effectiveness of the intervention based on acceptance and commitment on marital burnout, self-pity and intimacy. In this research, the data collection method was field based, in this research, from the statistical population of all women with addicted husbands in the summer of 2016 in Kermanshah city, 30 people were randomly selected based on available sampling and divided into two experimental groups. and control of 15 people were appointed.Keywords: Addiction, Family, Self-compassion, Couple burnout, Intimacy, Acceptance, and Commitment-based therapy. Both groups were given SCS self-compassion questionnaire (Neff; 2003), CBM marital despondency scale (Pines 1996) and IS intimacy needs questionnaire (Bagarouzi; 2001). The experimental group received the treatment based on acceptance and commitment as a group in 8 sessions of 90 minutes, and at the end of the sessions, the effect of the said treatment was checked by retesting both groups. And the results showed that the intervention based on acceptance and commitment reduced marital burnout, increased self-compassion (in the components of self-kindness, self-judgment, isolation and self-restraint) and intimacy with the spouse (in the components of emotional intimacy, psychological intimacy , intellectual intimacy, aesthetic intimacy and sexual intimacy).