The effectiveness of solution-focused therapy on emotional, cognitive, motivational and biological symptoms of major depressive disorder in men and women

The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of strategic solution-oriented therapy on emotional, cognitive, motivational and biological symptoms of major depressive disorder.

The present study was applied in terms of research purpose. The quasi-experimental research design was pretest-posttest with control group and quarterly follow-up. The statistical population of the study included all men and women who referred to Bojnourd Beautiful Mental Counseling and Psychology Center in 2019-20, who referred to psychiatrists, psychologists and mental health specialists and the center specialists diagnosed them with major depressive disorder. The sample of this study includes 30 people from the mentioned community who were selected using purposive sampling method and using simple randomization method in two groups of solution-focused therapy (n= 15) based on Quick (2008) protocol and control group (n=15) were assigned. Data were obtained using a Depression Inventory (researcher-made). In the descriptive statistics section, mean and standard deviation and in the inferential statistics section, the analysis of variance with repeated measures was used.

The results showed that strategic solution-oriented therapy reduces the symptoms of emotional (F=41.16, P<0.001), cognitive (F=12.87, P<0.001), motivational (F=4.93, P=0.035) and biological (F=29.85, P<0.001) disorders. Major depression was effective.

It can be concluded that strategic solution-oriented therapy is effective on emotional, cognitive, motivational and biological symptoms of major depressive disorder and can be used to improve the problems of people with major depression.