Effectiveness of cognitive spirituality-based counseling on decreasing of demoralization in elders

Elders face existential issue such as death, sense of loosing, lack of life and last chances. If people, cant confront effectively with it, after this loss of meaning of life, will form the main core of set of syndromes that called “demoralization”. Cognitive spirituality-based counseling tries to correct believes and the human imagination of God via cognitive therapy concepts and techniques. Because they prevent realistic and genuine attention to existential anxieties. A single case experimental plan, an A-B form, was used in this study. After determining baseline situation, intervention started. 10 sessions of cognitive spirituality-based counseling applied for them individually. A follow up session include running inventories, did a month after intervention. The participants were 3 elder women that were detected appropriate for this study by demoralization scale. Then cognitive distortions inventory ran to measure cognitive distortions that related to demoralization. The statistical society were elder women that refer to Tehran culture homes and sampling method was accessible and purposeful. results in this study via visual analysis of diagram of data show that mentioned approach was affective on two participants and non affective on the other. It seems that cognitive-spirituality counseling was affective in decreasing demoralization in two participants and non affective in other one.