The effectiveness of narrative therapy based on cognitive-behavioral perspective on symptoms depression and dysthymic disorders in children

This study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of narrative therapy based cognitive-behavioral perspective on symptoms depression and dysthymic disorders of primary school children.The Method of study was an experimental pretest-posttest design on control group. The population consisted of all third and fourth grade girls in Yazd in the 2013-2014 school years that they have depression disorders.To perform this study, 26 of those children who have symptoms of depression were selected by Convenience sampling method and were placed into two experimental and control groups randomly.Tool used in this study was children Symptom Inventory (CSI-4), the parent form. narrative therapy based cognitive-behavioral perspective were conducted on the experimental group for 12 sessions lasting 45 minutes and the data were analyzed by analysis of covariance.The results showed that narrative therapy intervention had significant effects on depression disorder. Based on the results of this study, narrative therapy as an effective therapy method can be used in reducing symptoms of depression in children.