The Effectiveness of trauma specific cognitive-behavioral therapy on reducing love fouced syndromes in college students

This research aimed at determining the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy on reducing love trauma syndrome in college students. Thise study was semi-experimental, with pretest posttest and control group.30 students with love trauma syndrome were assigned randomly to experiment and control groups based on inclusion criteria and cut-point of Love Truma Inventory. Participants responded to Love Trauma Inventory. Experiment group participanted in 11 sessions 60 to 90 minutes based on Michael Free–behavior cognitive group therapy, and control group not recived intervention Results showed that 6.24 percent of the students has love trauma syndrome, and this ratio was higher in female students, and the results of ANCOVA showed that, there is a significant difference between the experiment and control groups in love trauma syndrome. This study showed that trauma-focus cognitive-behavioral therapy is effective in reduction of love trauma