Compare the Effectiveness of the Group Intervention and Teaching With two Logo Therapy and Cognitive-Behavioral Methods on Mental Health, Depression

The present study was done with the aim of comparing the effectiveness of group intervention with two methods of behavioral-cognitive and logo therapy on depression disorder and mental health of female students by quasi-experimental method with experimental and control groups on 30 persons of sample group (10 persons in each group)who have been selected by available method in Teacher Educating University (Tehran- Karaj) In Iran academic year : 2011 , In this study was used of two group methods in 10 sessions of behavioral - cognitive and logo - therapy and was usedepression questionnaire by cognitive - behavioral Method (Beck ) to collect data in three time periods (pre-test, post-test and follow-up ) in two experimental and control groups. The results of data analysis were significant by two tests of covariance and repeated variance analyses at the level of0/01 . Accordingly , it has been shown that both behavioral -cognitive therapy and logo - therapy approaches have been caused on Decrease in Depression and increase mental health in the experimental group and this difference is significant in comparison to the control group . On the other hand , re-test shows lasting effect of therapy on Decrease in Depression and increase mental health in both approaches with in one month . Also there was no difference in effectiveness in Decrease Depression and increase mental health between the two therapy groups.