The Effectiveness of Behavioral Dialectical Therapy in Developing Psychological Resiliency and its Relationship to Depression

Abstract

The current study aimed to reveal the effectiveness of dialectical behavioral therapy in developing the psychological resilience of university students and its relationship to their feelings of depression, and the number of tools sample reached )150( female students of the College of Sciences and Human Studies in Spears. Two scales were applied, one of which was used to detect feelings of depression and the other on psychological resilience, prepared by the researcher on an exploratory sample, to detect cases that suffer from depressive feelings. And the other is experimental, and the treatment program was applied by the researcher to the members of the experimental group, and the program consisted of sixteen sessions, and the ultimate goal was to develop resilience to reduce depression. The duration of each session ranged between 45 minutes and an hour twice a week over a period of three months. Results of statistical analysis of the effectiveness of dialectical behavioral therapy in developing psychological resilience and relieving feelings of depression.