The Effectiveness of Group Logotherapy on Resilience among Women with Alexithymia Symptoms

The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of a Group Logotherapy protocol on resilience in women with Alexithymia symptoms. A semi-experimental design by pretest-posttest with control group were applied. The statistical population included referred Alexithymia women to Tabriz treatment centers during a 4 month interval. Among these a total number of 24 subjects using Toronto Alexithymia Scale- 20  were screened and divided to experimental and control groups (n=12) in a randomly basis. The experimental group received Group Logotherapy for 10 session of 90 minutes, while no intervention made on control group. Subjects of both group were completed Conner & Davidson Resilience Scale (CD‐RISC) in pretest and posttest occasions. The data were extracted and a Multivariable Analysis of Covariance (MANCOVA) administered. The results showed that logotherapy after 10 sessions significantly impact the resilience mean scores in the experimental group rather than control group at posttest stage. According to the findings of the present research, the Group Logotherapy could be a useful intervention to increase resilience of the Alexithymia women and is then recommended to the clinicians in work with these patients..