The Effectiveness of Short-term Comprehensive Scheduling Psychosis on Mental Health of Students with Special Learning Disabilities

This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of short-term intensive psychotherapy on the mental health of students with specific learning disabilities. The research design was a pre-test-posttest with the control group. The statistical population included all students with particular learning disabilities in Zabol city in the academic year of 2011-2012. Among them, 30 students aged between 8 and 12 years were selected by convenience sampling and randomly assigned to two groups of experimental and control. The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) was used for data collection. Danno-based treatment was performed on the experimental group individually, twice a week in 12 sessions of 60 minutes. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics (one-way covariance analysis). The results of the study showed that there is a significant difference between the two groups of experimental and control groups in the mental health variable after the control of the pre-test scores (P <0.05). Based on these findings, in the course of short-term intensive psychotherapy, the therapist improves the mental health of these children by providing a deeply emotional experience. Keywords: Schedule Psychotherapy, Mental Health, Special Learning Disabilities