Effect of Enable Consultation on Addicts' Hope and Happiness

Abstract

Opium addiction plats many social damages. So this study is designed and implemented by the aim of Strength-Based Counselling on addicts' hope and happiness in addiction leaving centers. Materials and methods: this research is a clinical trial study with two groups and three stages. Samples are 64 people that were assigned randomly in control and experimental groups. At first, participants filled Schneider's hope questionnaire, Oxford's happiness questionnaire and demographic properties part. The experimental group were consulted with solution focused therapy (SFT) method for 8 sessions and at last, hope and happiness were evaluated immediately one month after intervention. Data were analyzed with SPSS software. Findings: this study showed that there is a significant difference between mean score of hope and happiness in control and experimental groups before and after intervention (P<0.001). mean hope score in the experimental group were 24.66 +/- 3.03, 30.47 +/- 4.23 and 27.03 +/- 3.02 at the before of the intervention, immediately after intervention and one month after intervention respectively. Mean happiness scores in the experimental group were 63.09 +/- 5.42, 67.41 +/- 6.19 and 66.97 +/- 7.00 before the intervention, immediately after intervention and one month after intervention respectively. Conclusion: Strength-Based counselling was effective in addicts' hope and happiness improvement. Thus it is suggested to use this method as a practical aspect to help addicts and improve their hope and happiness.