The effectiveness of Interventions based on Positive Psychotherapy on improving coping styles, relapse prevention in people with Substance use disorder

The aimed of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of Interventions based on Positive Psychotherapy on improving coping styles, relapse prevention in diagnosed people with Substance use disorder. The research design was quasi-experimental with pretest-posttest, a month Follow-up and control group. To do the Study, among the all diagnosed people with Substance use disorder that admitted to Addiction treatment centers in Zahedan city.31 persons were through purposeful sampling and randomly assigned to an experimental (14 persons) and control (17 persons) groups. Both groups responded to Coping Styles Questionnaire by Billings and Mouse, at the pretest stage. In later stages of research, in the experimental group the intervention based on positive psychotherapy were conducted for 10 sessions of 60 minutes. Data was analyzed by Covariance and chi-square test. The results showed Interventions based on Positive Psychotherapy improved the coping styles and relapse prevention of experimental group patients and the effect of intervention was meaningful in posttest and follow up stage. The result of showed that Interventions based on Positive Psychotherapy can be used as an efficient way to improve coping skills and relapse prevention in patients with Substance use disorder.