The effectiveness of an Improving personal skills training package on enhancing cognitive-behavioral abilities of marginalized women

Nowadays, with the expansion of metropolises and the complexities of life, the problems of life are increasing day by day. These problems require skills and abilities to deal with them. The main purpose of this research is to investigate the effectiveness of the individual skills training package in improving the cognitive-behavioral abilities of girls and women aged 20-30 years in the marginal areas of the cities of Isfahan, Tehran), Zahedan and Mashhad.The experimental intervention method is based on a semi-experimental method of pre-test-post-test type with a control group and with the intervention of training individual skills improvement package. It was based on a sample consisting of two groups of 60 individuals from the women's community living in marginal areas, who were randomly divided into two intervention and control groups. The results obtained from the multivariate covariance analysis test showed that the mean scores of the participants in the emotional regulation, self-awareness and effective communication was significantly different among experimental and control groups, after intervention. In other words, individual skills’ training has significantly improved the cognitive-behavioral abilities of the participants.