The effectiveness of logotherapy program based on Islamic-Iranian values on marital satisfaction among parents of exceptional children

An Islamic Form of Logotherapy in the Treatment of Depression, Anxiety and Stress Symptoms in University Students in Iran

“…The effect size is larger than that in previous studies on logotherapy with university students in Iran (Esalati et al, 2019;Farahini et al, 2019;Robatmili et al, 2015). There might be several reasons for this: (1) our programme incorporated spiritual values and practices that might meet the needs of the Muslim students; (2) there were twelve sessions, whereas in the previous studies, there were only eight or ten;…”

“…An eight-session group logotherapy course for female students with depression was shown to significantly increase psychological well-being and decrease addiction potential (Esalati et al, 2019). A logotherapy intervention for parents of difficult children led to a significant improvement in marital satisfaction when compared to results for a control group (Farahini et al, 2019).…”

“…Interestingly, most of the studies on logotherapy in Iran have applied a traditional rather than a spiritually adapted form of logotherapy (Esalati et al, 2019;Robatmili et al, 2015). Only Farahini et al (2019) used a logotherapy programme "based on Islamic-Iranian values", without giving details. Thus, the aim of the present study is to develop a therapy protocol based on logotherapy and incorporating Muslim values and practices.…”