Oluwole, A.D. (2016). Effectiveness of dialectical Behaviour and Acceptance Commitment Therapies in enhancing social competence of spiritually-abused adolescents in Ibadan metropolis, Nigeria.

In Nigeria, despite massive religious involvement, the problem of most adolescents in recent times is that they lack social competence due to psychological inhibition such as spiritual abuse. Thus, this study utilised Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in improving social competence of adolescents who are victims of spiritual abuse. Experimental design was adopted for the present study.Results showed that the treatments have significant main effect on the social competence of the spiritually abused adolescents (F (2,161) = 162.87, P < .05, ῆ = 0.563)). Also, acceptance-commitment therapy (x = 396.28, SD = 8.56) was the most effective method in enhancing social competence of spiritually abused adolescents when compared to the Dialectical behaviour therapy (x = 382.39, SD = 8.24) and the control group (x = 342.91, SD = 9.44) respectively. Spiritual abuse has no significant effect on participants social competence (F2,161 = 0.830; P > 0.050, ῆ = 0.168). This means that there is no significant main effect of spiritual abuse on social competence of the participants. Further, there was no significant main effect of gender on social competence (F1,161 = 0.656; P > 0.05, ῆ = 0.137). This means that social competence of male and female participants was not significantly differ. It is recommended that therapists working should employ both techniques in improving social competence skills among adolescents particularly those with spiritual abuse.