Middle Eastern Journal of Disability Studies

Background and Purpose: Aggression, physical behavior is quite obvious, and its purpose is to harm the person or system that avoids others or confronts them like them. In humans, aggression occurs when the balance between two impulses and internal control is disrupted. "Aggression is considered as one of the most important issues in adolescence, while bullying and aggression have many negative consequences Aggression refers to any kind of behavior that is aimed at harming others from one person. Aggression may appear in a variety of ways, hostility, the cognitive aspect of aggression and Anger reflects its emotional aspect. The behavioral aspect of aggression also manifests verbally and physically. One of the treatments suggested in recent years is spiritual healing. Spirituality and spiritual growth in humans and their role in various parts of his life has attracted the attention of psychologists and mental health professionals in recent decades. It seems that nowadays the people of the world are more and more inclined to spirituality and spiritual issues, and psychologists and psychologists are also increasingly seeing the use of current methods that focus more on aspects Psychological, social, and physical aspects of humans are not enough to cure psychiatric disorders. This worldwide interest in spiritual issues has led some health organizations, such as the World Health Organization, to redefine definitions of human and human nature. The organization refers to the physical, social, psychological and spiritual dimensions in defining the dimensions of human existential, and then implies the fourth dimension, the spiritual dimension in human development and evolution. Paragman states that, in short, spirituality is one of the dimensions Human life, and when people enter the counseling and treatment room, they do not leave their spiritual aspects behind, but also bring their spiritual beliefs, practices and experiences, values, communication, and spiritual challenges to the counseling and treatment room. the purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of group spirituality therapy on reducing the violence of aggressive students in secondary schools in the city of Iranshahr.

Materials and Methods: The present study was a semi-experimental pre-test-post-test with control group and the population of the study included all aggressive students due to aggression in counseling centers in secondary schools in the city of Iranshahr in the academic year 1397-1396. 136 people and 40 people with the highest level of aggression (based on the bass and peri scores) were selected and randomly assigned to two groups of 20 (20 controls, 20 experimental groups). Then the experimental group participated in spiritual therapy sessions for 4 weeks, 2 days per week and each session, and the control group did not have any kind of counseling or treatment during this period. After the end of the course of treatment, both post-test groups were taken The tools used in this study were Bass and Percy Aggression Questionnaire and Strauss and Comaghe (1983). This questionnaire was designed by Buss & Perry in 1992 and includes a self-reporting tool that includes 29 phrases and 4 sub-scales: physical aggression, verbal aggression, anger and hostility. The scoring of this questionnaire is in a Likert scale of 5 to 1, and Questions 9 and 16 are scored in reverse order. This questionnaire has acceptable validity and reliability. The results of Ratio coefficient of 4 sub-scorecard have been reported between 0.72 and 0.80, and the correlation between 4 subscales has been obtained from 0.38 to 0.42. The psychometric indices of this questionnaire in Iran were obtained by Mohammadi. In his research, Cronbach's alpha was 0.82 for physical aggression, verbal aggression of 0.87, anger of 0.81, and hostility of 80.0 Covariance analysis (ANCOVA) was used to analyze the hypotheses.

Results: The findings showed that group spiritual healing had a significant effect on reducing violence among aggressive students and its impact was 70.4%.

Conclusion: According to the findings of this research and the effectiveness of group spirituality therapy on aggressive adolescent aggression, the use of this method is advised to experts in this field.