Effectiveness of group counseling based on therapeutic method for responsibility and spiritual health of working girls of Farhangsara Pegah, Is

Subject Areas : Psychology

Atefeh Abbasi ¹ , Hajar Barati ²

1 - کارشناسی ارشد، گروه روانشناسی، موسسه آموزش عالی المهدی (عج) مهر اصفهان[e-mail]
2 - استادیار، گروه روانشناسی، دانشگاه اصفهان

Received: 2023-07-10 Accepted : 2023-08-06 Published : 2023-08-23

Keywords: responsibility, spiritual health, Group counseling based on compassion therapy approach, working girls,

Abstract :

This research was conducted with the aim of investigating the effect of group counseling based on compassion therapy approach on the responsibility and spiritual health of the girls of Farhangsara Pegah Isfahan . The research method was a semi-experimental pre-test-post-test type with a control group. For this purpose, 30 working girls in the 10th district of Isfahan were selected by available sampling and randomly replaced in two experimental and control groups (15 people in each group). Before and after the intervention, the participants responded to the research instrument that included 42 questions from the California Psychological Inventory (CPI) Goff (1984), which was related to the dimension of responsibility, and the spiritual health questionnaire of Ellison and Polotzin (1983). Participants in the experimental group underwent eight 90-minute sessions of compassion therapy according to Gilbert's concepts and treatment plan (2014), but the control group did not receive any intervention. The data were analyzed at two descriptive levels (mean and standard deviation) and inferential (univariate analysis of covariance test). The results of univariate covariance analysis showed that group counseling based on compassion therapy approach has led to increased responsibility and spiritual health in working girls (p<0.05). Compassion-based group therapy increases self-responsibility in working girls by increasing self-kindness as well as increasing the sense of philanthropy. Working girls, because they are deprived of their rights such as education, health and proper nutrition, and being on the street for a long time, causes them to be exposed to different harms, including physical, mental, spiritual and social harms, and causes distance.