The Survival Skills Training Based on an Islamic Approach and its Effect on the Depression, Anxiety and Stress among the Women with Chronic Psychiatric Disorders

The present paper is concerned with the survival skills training based on an Islamic approach and its effects on the depression, anxiety and stress among the women with chronic psychiatric disorders. This semi-experimental study is done by pre-test and a post-test. The sample includes the women who visited Parastou Rehabilitation Institute for mental illnesses in Najaf Abad since the winter of 1392. Randomly 24 women were placed in the two groups of experiment and control by the method of available sampling. The results of covariance analysis show that after controlling the scores of pre-tests, there is a significant difference between the scores of depression, anxiety and stress in post-test stage (P