The Impact of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy on Stigmatization

The goal of study is to determine the effect of acceptance and commitment therapy-based psychoeducation on the level of stigmatization applied to relatives of schizophrenia patients. Type of study: This study was planned as a pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design with an observation and control group. Participants: The population of the study consisted of the relatives of schizophrenia patients who were registered and actively attending the Community Mental Health Center in a state hospital in Ankara. Intervention: Before the psychoeducation process started, personal information form and scales were applied to the relatives of the patients in the experimental and control groups. An ACT-based psychoeducation program consisting of 8 sessions was applied to the experimental group. each session lasted approximately 90 minutes. The control group did not receive any intervention. After the psychoeducation, the scales were reapplied to the experimental and control groups. In addition, the experimental group was asked to fill out the psychoeducation evaluation form. The scales were reapplied to the experimental group after the 1-month follow-up study and evaluated.