Effectiveness of Reality Therapy Training on Resilience and Psychological Well-Being of Mothers of Children with Intellectual Disabilities

Background: Reality therapy is a kind of psychotherapy in which it is tried to help to resolve problems with respect to the concepts of reality, the proper and incorrect responsibility of onechr('39')s life. In this way, people who need psycho social help are helped by defining human nature, determining behavioral rules and designing the treatment process. Objectives: The present study aimed to investigating the effect of using group reality therapy on resilience and psychological well-being in mothers of children with intellectually disabilities in Sosangerd. Method: The research design was quasi-experimental with pre-test and posttest and control groups. The statistical population of this study included all the Mothers of children with intellectually disabilities in Sosangerd. 30 mothers of children with intellectually disabilities were selected through convenience sampling method, and then they were put into two experimental and control groups. Data were gathered using Conner and Davidson Resilience Questionnaire and Reef Psychological Well-Being Questionnaire. Reality therapy was performed in 8 sessions in the experimental group. Data were analyzed using repeated measures analysis of variance. Results: The results indicated the effectiveness of experimental treatment on the increase resilience and psychological well-being the mothers in the experimental group. Conclusion: Hence, this method is effective and useful to improve the mental health of these mothers.