The Effectiveness cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) on stressful, dysfanctional and burnout of military personnel

The aim of the present research the effectiveness cognitive-behavioral therapy on stress, dysfanctional and burnout among staff's of South West Region Army of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

The research's plan was experimental of field experiment by pretest – posttest with the control group.Sample included 40 staff's of South West Region Army of the Islamic Republic of Iran that were selected by targeted sampling method. Data collection tools were Cohen & et al's perceived stress questionnaire (1983), Rafi's shyness questionnaire (1983), Wiserman & Beck's dysfanctional questionnaire (1978) and Maslech's burnout questionnaire (1981). For the experimental group, 12 sessions of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) based on Free (1999) were performed. There was no any psychological intervention for the control group.

The results of multivariate analysis of covariance showed that the cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) has positive effect on reduction stress, dysfanctional in the feilds of perfection, need the approval of others, need to please others and vulnerability-assessment and burnout in the staff (p<0/05).

Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) can be used to reduce stress, dysfanctional and burnout among staff's of South West Region Army of the Islamic Republic of Iran.