comparison of the effectiveness of Narrative therapy (cognitive-behavioral) and Psychodrama on Social self- empowerment and Alexithymia in female students with specific learning disorder

Abstract The present research aimed to draw a comparison of the effectiveness of  Narrative therapy (cognitive-behavioral) and Psychodrama on Social self- empowerment and Alexithymia in female students with specific learning disorder in Baharestan City.Method a experimental research with pre-test, post-test, and control group. The statistical population of the present research included all female students the sixth grade with special learning disabilities, those  who studied in the academic year of 97-96 Which are identified and identified by WISC-IV ( 2003)    in the psychometric section of counseling centers.  .Therefore, a sample of 48 female students the sixth grade with special learning disabilities with the Colorado learning difficulties Questionnaire (Wilkat et al., 2011)  , social self-empowerment questionnaire (Prandin, 2006) and Alexithymia Questionnaire (Toronto, 1994) by simple random sampling from counseling centers (underwent Supervision Education) ) located in Baharestan City And randomly divided into three groups (two experimental and one control group) and underwent the therapy and training in Razi Consulting center.Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics of multivariate covariance analysis (MANCOVA) and one variable (ANCOVA) and Bonferroni . post hoc test using SPSS software.The results showed that there was a significant difference between the experimental groups influenced by Narrative therapy and Psychodrama in terms Social self- empowerment and Alexithymia (P <0.01) .Conclusion, according to the comparison of the difference among the mean of the two experimental groups, in increase  of Social self- empowerment variable and decreasing the Alexithymia   highest effect was related   Narrative therapy and Then Psychodrama .