Effectiveness of Group Counseling Based on the Reality Therapy on Resilience and Psychological Well-Being of Mothers with an Intellectual Disabled Child

摘要: Background: The birth of a child with mental retardation can put lot mentally pressure on people around her, especially mother. Therefore, the purpose this study was to investigate effectiveness group counseling based reality therapy resilience and psychological well-being mothers an intellectual disabled child. Materials Methods: research quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design control group. Forty who their children were studying at exceptional schools Kermanshah city in 2017; selected by simple random sampling assigned into two intervention (n=20), groups (n=20). received training 10 sessions 60 minutes (one session every week). tools include Conner Davidson Resilience (2003), Reef Psychological Well-Being (1980). Data analyzed SPSS software (version 21), multivariate analysis covariance. Results: mean mothers’ 74.41±8.33 post-test; group, 45.41±16.84 post-test. 72.5±83.3 these values 34.12±7.47 post-test, respectively. results independent t-test showed that there is significant difference between terms (p<0.001). Conclusion: According results, under had improvement increasing level compared