اثربخشی درمان شناختی رفتاری به شیوه گروهی بر سلامت روان زنان زندانی

Background: there's a lot of mental disorders in most countries. these disorders are more prevalent among imprisoned. there are several reasons for the excessive incidence of mental disorders in prisons: there is a wrong notion that people with mental disorders are a risk factor for society, failures in treatment, care and rehabilitation, and above all, poor access to mental health services and mental stress of prison space. therefore, the present study has been investigated the effectiveness of cognitive - behavioral group therapy on mental health of imprisoned women of borojerd nesvan prison.materials and methods: the study method was experimental with pre-test, post-test and control group. sample size was 30 people that divided randomly into experimental and control groups (15 people). at the first we gave goldberg general health tests to women as pre test and then experimental group were treated with cognitive - behavioral therapy in the during 12 sessions of 120 minutes. in the end, both groups were tested again the same questions as the post test. data were analyzed using ancova test.results: findings indicated that experimental group was significantly different from control group in terms of digit span (p < 0.001) and cognitive - behavioral therapy affected on mental health in prisoner women.conclusions: the results showed that it is possible to adopt a cognitive - behavioral therapy to improve mental health of prisoner women and they returned to the family and community level by doing by this approach.