The effect of solution –focused group counseling on academic buoyancy of high-school female students in Najaf Abad city in the academic year of 2015-2016 (1394-95s.c.)

The purpose of this research was to study the effect of "solution-focused" group counseling on academic buoyancy of high-school female  students. The research method was semi-experimental (two groups with pre-test and post-test). The statistical population included all high school female  students in the academic year of 2015-2016 (1394-95s.c.) in Najaf Abad City. Therefore, 34 students were chosen by using random cluster sampling and randomly assigned into 2 groups (17 control group and 17 experimental group). The experimental group participated in 6-sessions, 90 minute each of, "solution-focused" group counseling program. The assessment instruments included the "SBI"(Student Buoyancy Instrument) Questionnaire (Comerford, Batteson, & Tormey, 2015) that translated and normalized by the researcher. The data of the research were analyzed by using analyses of Covariance. The results showed that there were significant differences between the two groups in terms of academic buoyancy (p=0/032), and all of its factors (p<0.001). This results indicated that solution-focused group counseling increased academic buoyancy and all of its factors. Therefore, changing students' perspectives, focusing more on solutions and choosing useful and effective solutions provide suitable ground for increasing students’ capacity to successfully overcome setback and challenge that is typical of the ordinary course of everyday academic life.