"study of effectiveness of fordyce's happiness cognitive –behavioral group counseling on decreasing occupational burnout among social workers"

many jobs have stressful situations. burn out will occurred when$ job stress is high and no action takes for coping with it. in present survey$ the effectiveness of fordyce's happiness cognitive - behavioral model if happiness were studied on decreasing burn out of social workers. 24 samples were randomly selected among the social workers with low burnout grades$ and divided in two groups (experimental and control). after 8 sessions of group counseling$ the results showed the significant difference among control and experimental groups (0/000). it means fordyce's cognitive behavioral groups counseling of happiness were useful for decreasing burn out of social workers.