The effectiveness of solution‑focused brief therapy on reducing depression in women
Publish Year: 1395
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Index date: 24 October 2017
The effectiveness of solution‑focused brief therapy on reducing depression in women abstract
Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of solution‑focused brief therapy (SFBT) on reducing depression in head‑of‑family women under the protection of the State Welfare Organization of Iran. Materials and Methods: The sample consisted of 30 womenwho were randomly selected based on acquiring scores upper than median on Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) scale, and were randomly assigned to the intervention and control groups. With apretest and posttest control group design, subjects in the experimental group underwent 8 weekly sessions of SFBT. Both groups were evaluated using BDI‑II scale in pretest and posttest, and datawere analyzed using ANCOVA. Results: Findings showed no significant difference between the two groups in the pretest, while SFBT, significantly decreased depression scores in the interventiongroup. Conclusion: SFBT could be used as an intervention program in target groups and the general population of women with depression
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The effectiveness of solution‑focused brief therapy on reducing depression in women authors
Mojtaba Habibi
Department of Family Therapy, Family Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University
Kobra Ghaderi
Department of Counseling, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran
Samaneh Abedini
Department of Family Therapy, Family Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University
Nina Jamshidnejad
Department of Family Therapy, Family Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University