The Effect of Cognitive Therapy in Increasing of Mental Health in Nurses Who Work at Exceptional Rehabilitation Centers

This research was done with the purpose of the survey of cognitive therapy in increasing of mental health in nurses who work at exceptional rehabilitation centers.

This survey is the clinical trial of the semi-experimental with pre-test and post-test with control group. Population of this research is the nurses who work at Emam Ali rehabilitation center. From the 30 of these nurses that after done the General Health Questionnaire and got the less score by the random sampling were divided them into control and trial group. The members of trial group were attended in cognitive therapy instruction, in 10 sessions, but the control group didn’t attend in any instruction sessions. Data were analyzed with the covariance analyzing system.

The scores of mental health and it’s forth dimensions are increasing in trial group against of the scores in control group.

The results are showed that the cognitive therapy has remarkable effect on increasing of mental health and its dimensions on the nurses of the research.