The Effectiveness of Hope Therapy base on Groups to increase the Components of Self-esteem and Psychological Health in Depressed People

Background and Objective: The aim of present study was to investigation the effectiveness of hope therapy base on groups to increase the components of Self-esteem and Psychological health in depressed people. Materials and Method: The method of this study was semi-experimental with pretest -posttest design with control group. The sample consisted of ۴۰ female high school students in Khorramabad city. Initially the Beck Depression Inventory was used randomly for ۷۳۰ students. Then ۴۰ subjects from population who were in abnormal level, according to criteria of clinical cut of point, (one standard deviation above the mean) were selected and structured clinical interview was administrated. Of these, ۲۰ subjects were selected randomly for experimental group and ۲۰ of them to the control group. The Hope Therapy administrated ۸ sessions that each session lasted ۹۰ minutes every week, one session. After completing sessions, post-test was administrated on experimental and control groups. 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Keywords: Hope therapy , Psychological health , self- esteem