مجله علوم روانشناختی (Aug 2021)
Comprehensive the effects of adlerian group counseling and reality therapy grouping on well-being in students of middle school in tehran city
Abstract
Background: Various studies have shown that Adlerian counseling and reality therapy are effective on psychological well-being, but do Adlerian counseling and reality therapy as a group affect psychological well-being, and which one is more effective? Aims: The present study aimed to compares the effectiveness of group counseling with Adlerian therapy and reality therapy on psychological well-being in the first high school students in Tehran. Method: The present study employed a control group pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design. The statistical population consisted of all female high school students in public schools in Tehran in the academic year 2019-2020. Using the Multi-stage cluster sampling method, 45 participants were selected and then randomly divided into three 15-individual groups. The first experimental group received ten 90-minute sessions of the Adlerian counseling training program retrieved from Salimi Bejestani (2010) and the second experimental group participated in ten 90-minute sessions of reality therapy counseling training program retrieved from Shafiabadi and Naseri (2019). The research instrument was the Psychological Well-Being Scale (Riff & Keynes, 1995). Research data were analyzed using ANCOVA and SPSS-22. Results: The results showed that there is a significant difference between the first experimental (Adlerian group counseling) group, the second experimental (reality therapy) group, and the control group in terms of psychological well-being (P˃ 0.001). Conclusions: Adlerian group counseling had a better and higher effect on psychological well-being than reality therapy. Adlerian therapy leads people to cultivate social interest by emphasizing accurate lifestyle identification and focusing on identifying and correcting fundamental mistakes that disrupt interpersonal and interpersonal relationships. Therefore, Adlerian group counseling is an effective way to increase students' psychological well-being. It is recommended that counselors of schools and psychotherapy centers use the Adlerian group counseling in the treatment of adolescents' problems.
