Investigating the Effectiveness of Group Cognitive Therapy on Students' Emotional Responses

This research was conducted with the aim of investigating group cognitive therapy on emotional reactions of students. The statistical population was the total number of secondary school students in Shavour district education in the academic year of 1995-96; 30 students were selected by sampling method. Purposeful were selected and randomly assigned to two experimental groups (15 people) and control (15 people). In order to collect data, the DASS-21 test was used. The cognitive therapy training sessions were performed according to the model of Michael Frey for 10 sessions in the experimental group and the control group did not receive any training. In this study, a pre-test design was carried out. The control group was used. After completing post-test training sessions, both groups were used. Data were analyzed using SPSS18 software and Chi-2 and Mann-Whitney tests. The results of this study showed that between two functions There was a significant difference between the experimental and control groups of stress and anxiety with the overall score of adolescent's emotional reactions in the post test, but this difference was not significant in the depression dimension.