Document Type : Original Article
Researchers
1 MA student of Allameh Tabatabai university of Tehran Iran
2 Professor of psychology Allameh Tababa'i
Ministerial Ethics Committee
Women make up half of the society and their central role in the family makes it necessary to address their mental health problems including depression. One of the important indicators of depression is negative self-evaluation, self-blame and strong negative emotions that are experienced following these thoughts and reduce people's resilience. Emotion-focused therapy by improving self-compassion as a support structure can repair the damage related to self-criticism of depressed people. This research aims to investigate the effectiveness of emotion-focused therapy on resilience, self-compassion and mental pain in depressed women. This research is designed in a semi-experimental way, pre-test, post-test, with a control group and a forty-five-day follow-up. The complaint is depression. With the help of virtual announcements, 24 women who score 20 or higher in Beck's depression test will be selected in a non-random and purposeful way and will be randomly classified into two groups of subjects and controls.
Then they will answer the mental pain questionnaires of Auerbach (2003), Neff's self-compassion (2003) and Conner and Davidson's resilience (2003).After conducting ten sessions of emotional therapy in a group manner and performing post-test and follow-up, the research results by descriptive and inferential statistics including analysis of variance and by software spss-25, will be analyzed. Keywords: emotion-focused therapy, resilience, selfcompassion, Mental pain, depression