effectiveness of cognitive mindfulness-based-therapy on resilience and emotional control of psychiatric veteran’s wives

Aims psychiatric veterans’ wives are exposed to psychological damages due to their husbands’specific condition. the aim of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of cognitivemindfulness-based-therapy on resilience and emotional control of psychiatric veteran’s wivesmaterials & methods the present study was a semi-experimental design with a pretest, posttestdesign with a control group conducted in tehran in 2017. in order to conduct this research,a sample of 30 people from the research population (psychiatric veteran’s wives in tehran) wereselected, using available sampling method and were randomly selected in experimental andcontrol groups. the instruments included the resilience and emotional control questionnaires.before administering the independent variable the pretest was taken from both groups. then,the experimental group received teaching intervention during 8 sessions in 2-and-a-half monthperiod. shapiro–wilk test, levene’s test, and univariate covariance analysis as well as spss 23were used to analyze the data.findings cognitive mindfulness-based-therapy significantly affected resilience and emotionalcontrol of psychiatric veteran’s wives (p<0.05) in such a way that this treatment couldsignificantly improve the resilience and emotional control in psychiatric veteran’s wives.conclusion cognitive mindfulness-based-therapy can improve resilience and emotional controlof psychiatric veterans’ wives, and regarding this effect, this treatment can be used to improvetheir resilience and emotional control.