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Study aim
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Studying the effectiveness of schema therapy with mindfulness and forgiveness therapy on clinical symptoms, emotional responses, cognitive distortions and self-compassion in women affected by husband's betrayal
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Design
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Clinical trial with follow-up and control group, with parallel groups, not blind, randomized
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Settings and conduct
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The target population of this study is women affected by treachery of spouse referred to psychological clinics of Mashhad during the period from November to December 2018. A total of 36 women are selected based on inclusion criteria by the available sampling method and are randomly assigned to one of the two experimental or control groups. All participants will answer the questionnaire in the pre-test, post-test and 2 months follow-up steps. The data will be analyzed by repeated measures of variance analysis.
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Participants/Inclusion and exclusion criteria
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Inclusion criteria: Women whose husband's had been cut with the third person, but they could not reconstruct the relationship due to the anger and annoyance of husband's betrayal.
Exclusion criteria: To counteract husband's betrayal, Being applicant for divorce, Husband's remarriage due to betrayal
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Intervention groups
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Intervention group1: During ten 90-minute sessions of schema therapy with mindfulness for 2 month,, three of the most influential schemas and subjectivities of each participants, will be used in the context of the topic of mindfulness.
Intervention group 2 : During ten 90-minute sessions of forgiveness therapy for 2 month, the participants will pass the forgiveness process by uncovering of anger, making decision to forgive, working on it and finally deepening the forgiveness.
Control group: Will not receive any intervention until the end of the follow-up step.
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Main outcome variables
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Clinical symptoms;Emotional responses to betraying; Cognitive distortions; Self-compassion