Effectiveness of Cognitive Spirituality-Based Counseling of Demoralization in Elderlies

Objectives: elders face existential issues such as death, a sense of losing, lack of life, last chances, andmeaning of life. if people cannot confront it effectively, they may be lost meaning of life. they will sufferfrom a core of set of syndromes that are called “demoralization”. cognitive spirituality-based counselingtries to correct beliefs and the human imagination of god via cognitive therapy concepts and techniques,because they prevent realistic and genuine attention to existential anxieties.methods: a single case experimental plan, an a-b form, was used in this study. after determining thebaseline situation, intervention started. 10 sessions of cognitive spirituality-based counseling were appliedindividually. a follow-up session including running inventories was conducted a month after theintervention. the participants were 3 elderly women who were deemed appropriate for this study on thedemoralization scale. then, a cognitive distortions inventory was  employed to measure cognitivedistortions that were related to demoralization. the statistical population included elder women who hadbeen referred to iran alzheimer association. accessible and purposeful sampling method was used toselect the cases. result: the results of visual analysis of the data showed that cognitive spirituality-based counseling hada positive effective on two cases but not on the third one.discussion: it seems that cognitive-spirituality counseling was significantly effective in demoralization intwo-third of the participants.