effectiveness of transference-focused psychotherapy and acceptance and commitment therapy in promoting the mental health and psychological capital of staff working in hospitals covered by social security in tehran province

Objective: this study aimed to compare the effectiveness of transference-focused psychotherapy(tfp) and acceptance and commitment therapy (act) on promoting the mental health andpsychological capital of staff working in hospitals covered by social security in tehran province.methods: the present study was a quasi-experimental research with pre-test and post-test. thestatistical population of the present study was the personnel working in hospitals covered bysocial security in tehran province. a total of 120 personnel from three hospitals were randomlydivided into two experimental groups and one control group (40 people in each group). all threegroups answered the mental health questionnaire (symptom checklist-90-r (scl-90-r)) andpsychological capital questionnaire (pcq) as a pre-test. then, the transfer-oriented treatmentgroup and the acceptance and commitment treatment group (during eight sessions) received theexperimental intervention and the control group did not receive any kind of intervention. at theend of the sessions, all three groups answered the questions of the scl-90-r and pcq again.multivariate analysis of covariance was used to analyze the colected data.results: the results of the present study showed that both tfp and act were effective inpromoting the mental health of staff working in hospitals covered by social security. there wasalso a difference between the effectiveness of tfp and act in promoting the mental health ofstaff working in hospitals covered by social security. thus, in the tfp group, the componentsof anxiety, morbid fear, psychosis, and paranoia gained significantly lower scores comparedto the act group. regarding the components of psychological capital, the act group scoredsignificantly lower than the tfp group.conclusion: both methods can be used by counselors and therapists to promote the mentalhealth of staff working in hospitals covered by social security.