the effectiveness of kendall’s coping cat therapy on reducing anxiety among female adolescent students

aim and background: anxiety is a common psychiatric problem among adolescents. the present study was carried out to examine the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral group therapy (cbgt) based on kendall’s coping cat model on reducing anxiety among female adolescent students of khorram abad. methods and materials: this was an experimental study with a one-month follow-up period. it used simple random sampling to select 30 subjects from 376 students aging 11-13 who were found to have high levels of anxiety based on the spence children anxiety scale (scas). participants were randomly assigned into two groups of experimental and control. then, the experimental group attended cbgt based on kendall’s coping cat. finally, both groups were evaluated again using scas. the results were analyzed by analysis of covariance (ancova). findings: ancova revealed a significant difference between scas post-test scores of the experimental and control groups which remained stable one month after the end of treatment. conclusions: cognitive-behavioral group therapy based on kendall’s coping cat model can reduce anxiety in iranian female adolescent students.