Effectiveness of the Teasdale Cognitive Therapy on Depression Reduction in Guidance and High School Students

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of Teasdale Cognitive Therapy on depression reduction in guidance and high school students. To do so، 60 boys and 60 girls were randomly selected from guidance and high school students in Shahreza city. These students were randomly assigned to four experimental and four control groups. Each group consisted of 15 subjects. Experimental groups received 10 weekly sessions of intervention but the control groups did not receive such an intervention. Before and after intervention، all participants were interviewed by using Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I Disorders (SCID-I) and they also completed Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II). The results of analysis of covariance showed that Teasdale Cognitive Therapy significantly reduced the depression mean scores of the experimental groups as compared to the control groups. It is concluded that Teasdale Cognitive Therapy، as a useful method of intervention، could be applied to decrease the depression of students.