Efficacy of logo therapy and gestalt therapy in treating anxiety,depression and aggression

Subject Areas : روان درمانگری

Naser Yousefi ¹ (PhD Candidate Isfahan University)
Ozra Etemadi ² (PhD Isfahan University)
Fatemeh Bahrami ³ (PhD Isfahan University)
Maryam A Fatehizadeh ⁴ (PhD Isfahan University)
S. Ahmad Ahmadi ⁵ (PhD Isfahan University)
Abdoul A. Mavarani ⁶ (Islamic Azad University Mahabad Branch)
Omid Esanezhad ⁷ (M. A. in Family Counseling)
Saeideh Botlani ⁸ (M. A. in Family Counseling)

Received: 2015-06-05 Accepted : 2015-06-05 Published : 2009-03-21

Keywords: aggression, Anxiety, Depression, logo therapy, Gestalt Therapy,

Abstract :

This study compared Logo therapy and Gestalt therapy in alleviating symptoms of aggression, depression and anxiety. For this purpose 90 students who referred to the student counseling center at the Islamic Azad University of Mahabad were randomly assigned to two experimental and one control group (n=30). The experimental groups received techniques of Gestalt and Logo therapies for 12 one hour sessions per week. Using the Symptoms CheckList-25-Revised (Najarian & Davoodi, 2001) test and diagnostic interview based on DSMIV-TR (2000) aggressive, depressed, and anxious students were evaluated before students received any treatment, at the end of treatment, and six month after the treatment was ended. No significant difference was found between the pre-test means of three groups. Both Gestalt and Logo therapies reduced symptoms of aggression, and anxiety. The reduction of symptoms was still observable at the follow up stage. Logo therapy and Gestalt therapy were not significantly different in treating anxiety and aggression; however Logo therapy was more effective than Gestalt therapy in treating depression.