The Effectiveness of Group Gestalt Therapy on Increase of The Resiliency in Stuents

Adolescence is the most important period of development which attracted attention of scientists and educators. Some researchers believe that adolescence is a stage of challenges. Positive psychology focuses on improving quality of life rather than attention to psychological damage. Gestalt therapyis probablyone of the effective methodsto increaseresiliency. The main purpose of thi research was evaluating the effectiveness of group gestalt therapy on increasing the in students. The research methodology was semi experimental and pretest and posttest. The researchpopulation was the entire girl students studying inhigh school in Baharestan in the academic year 1390-91. The sample consisted of 30 students selected randomly out of 100 students withlowest score onREsiliency Questioner. The subjects randomly put in experimental and control groups. The experimental group participated in 8 sessions (90 minutes each) of group gestalt therapy. The control group received no intervention. Resiliency Scale (CD-RISC) questioner with average efficient reliability (0/88) was used after intervention, and a month later for follow-up. The resultsusing ANOVA showed that the main hypothesis of the researh was confirmed; meaning that group pestalt therapy increased the resiliency of students, and it had suitable stability during the time.