The Positive Effects of the Solution-Oriented Group Approach on Happiness among Fatherless Female Adolescents in 2015

Paternal death may have a detrimental effect on the psychological determinants including happiness of people particularly adolescents. Therefore, the present study was conducted to investigate the positive effects of solution-oriented group teaching on happiness in fatherless female adolescents.
This was a semi-experimental study with pretest, posttest and control group design. All fatherless female students living in Isfahan in 2014-15 were included in this study.. In order to select the sample size, 40 students were selected using a convenient and simple sampling method and were then randomly divided into two groups of 20. While the experimental group received the solution-oriented approach as a therapeutic intervention for 8 weekly sessions of ninety-minute, the control group received nothing. Oxford’s happiness questionnaire was used as the research instrument. The collected data were analyzed through ANOVA with repeated measurements via SPSS 19.
The results revealed that solution-oriented group teaching had a positive effective on the happiness of fatherless female adolescents at the posttest and follow-up stages (p According to the results of the current study along with other known interventions and also the present standards, solution-oriented teaching method can be employed to increase the fatherless adolescents’ happiness.