Effectiveness of a Self Help Model for Recovery on Stress and Mental Health

The purpose of the current research was to determine the effectiveness of self-help model on reducing stress and improving mental health. For this purpose, in a pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design, a number of 60 parents of Fereshteye Asmaani kindergarten staff were selected by available sampling method and randomly divided into two distinguished groups, namely experimental and control groups. Both groups completed Perceived Stress Scale of Cohen et al. (1983), as well as the Mental Health Questionnaire as pretest. Then, the experimental group was subjected to 8 sessions of self-help training using re-evaluation method and the control group did not receive any training. Then, both groups responded to the post-test and the collected data were analyzed using covariance analysis. The results showed that the self-help model using re-evaluation method has a significant effect on reducing stress and improving mental health, and the therapists and counselors could use this method to reduce stress and improve the mental health of their patients.