IRCT2016042527584N1 IRCT 2016-07-08 Islamic Azad University, Sari branch Effect of Mindfulness based on Acceptance and Commitment on mental health of the Elderly Effect of Mindfulness based on Acceptance and Commitment on Quality of Life and Death Depression and Internalized Shame in the elderly at Behshahr city. 2005-10-23 anticipated 30 Complete https://irct.ir/trial/22569 interventional Randomization: Randomized, Blinding: Not blinded, Placebo: Not used, Assignment: Parallel, Purpose: Prevention. N/A Depression. Intervention 1: The pre-test, first, done by questionnaire on death depression, life quality and internal shame of the elderly. The control group didn’t receive any training and are placed in a waiting list after the pre-test. For the experiment group, the acceptance-based mindfulness protocol was executed. The execution was held in 8 sessions, per week 2 sessions and each session for 60 minutes in group and on the basis of Flaxman instruction. The population of the study are all the eldery women in the behzisti Complex at the city of Behshahr, Mazandaran, Iran. Acceptance-based mindfulness is one of the interventions of the third wave in psychotherapy. Concepts of thought, feeling and behavior, and then about fundamental principles of intervention purposes and importance of assignments and exercises were explained at the first meeting of the members with each other and with the therapist. Experiencing avoidance and exercising disappointment and fundamental belief of the old people about changing were explained at the second meeting. The acceptance and practices and examples of it were presented at the third meeting.the fourth to sixth meetings were held on backing to the present time and mindful attention and assuming his own contextual understanding, and measuring the values and committed action and its exercises and examples.the seventh and eighth meetings were just reviewing the content of previous sessions, group discussions on problems which managers had at the pre-sessions; and the feedback and the effectiveness were discussed. Intervention 2: No intervention was done for the control group, and they lived in the center as before.