The Study of Solution-Focused Group Counseling in Decreasing Depression among Teenage Girls

Abstract

The aim of this study is to determine the effect of solution-focused approach in decreasing depression amongteenage girls. Depression is one of the most common diseases in these days which have been known as mentalflu. Adolescence also plays a pivotal and key role in our in which depression is very common. So it is necessaryto treat this disorder in adolescence.This research is a quasi-experimental design in which pretest-posttest design with a control group has been used.The population was all teenage girls in Sahneh; 20 girls were drawn from the population through stratifiedrandom sampling and then randomly assigned to two groups: one experimental and one control. Data werecollected through Beck's depression questionnaire (BDI). Dependent variable was solution-focused therapy inwhich experimental group was provided with 8-hour group counseling (8 sessions which took one hour). In themeantime, control group was provided with irrelevant teachings (teaching study skills) to eliminate the effect ofsubjects. After the sessions were wound up, BDI questionnaire was administered again among both groups. Onemonth later, the posttest and then BDI questionnaire were conducted. After that, t test and covariance were usedto analyze the findings. The results showed that solution-focused group counseling is effective in decreasingdepression among teenage girls and its significance level is at ?= 0/01. In addition, the findings obtained throughposttest indicated how stable the effect of therapy is. In other words, solution-focused group counseling hassignificantly led to decreasing depression in teenage girls.