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The main objective of this study was to determine the effectiveness of narrative therapy and group counseling on depression and loneliness among elderly women. This is a quasi experimental research method using post-test design with a control group. 24 women were selected from all the elderly women referring to Iranian Alzheimer's Association in 2012 through randomized sampling method and have been assigned to experiment and control groups. The tools for assessing depression and loneliness were the Geriatric Depression Scale and the Loneliness questionnaire. The experiment group had eight 90 -minute sessions of group counseling narrative therapy which took place once a week. The collected data have been statically analyzed using independent t -test in SSPS-19. The findings showed that there is a significant difference between the mean scores of the experiment and control group and it can be argued that employing narrative therapy group counseling was influential in reducing depression and loneliness [P < 0.01]. The effect of group counseling narrative therapy on reducing depression and loneliness of elderly women has been confirmed by the results of this study. Based on the findings, conducting narrative therapy group counseling is strongly recommended in health care organizations for the elderly people
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Since problem solving group training is a comprehensive, active program and based-on cognitive behavioral approach, the aim of present study was to determine the effectiveness of problem solving therapy on depression and coping style in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. In an experimental design the study was done with pretest-posttest with control group. Totally 30 female clients who had inclusion criteria with score of 20-28 in Beck Depression Inventory was selected from Prophet Mohammad hospital in Tehran and divided to two groups. Then coping skills questionnaire was completed by experimental and control group. The experimental group participated in seven sessions on problem solving therapy, while the control group received no intervention. T-test analysis and variance analysis with repeated measures on one variable were used for data analysis. The results of variance analysis show that teaching problem solving therapy on Zurilla and Goldfried model lead to significant reducing emotion focused coping skills and significant increasing problem focused coping skills among patients with type 2 diabetes on the experimental group. The results also indicated significant reducing depression between this individual in experimental groups. The results of this study indicated that problem solving therapy could be effective way for improvement coping skill and reducing depression in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus
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The aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of psychotherapy based on acceptance and commitment therapy [ACT] on the subscales of marital satisfaction; overall satisfaction, religious orientation, relations with children, sex, occasional conflicts, interpersonal conflicts and arrogance, by single case study in the spouses of veterans with spinal cord injuries. Participants completed Enrich marital satisfaction questionnaire at baseline [3 to 6 weeks], during six session's psychotherapy and the two-month follow-up. Analysis method of charting and visual analysis of the results showed that the [ACT] is an effective therapeutic approach to 4 marital satisfaction subscales but second and third participant didn't show any improvement.. Considering the above, [ACT] is an effective therapeutic approach to overall satisfaction, occasional conflicts, relations with children and interpersonal conflicts