Abstract

The goal of this research is study of action effectiveness of short time behavioral on decrease depression and increase social self -efficacy of depressed women that had been refered to one of the psychiatry clinic of Yazd. In this research used from pseudo-experimental from kind of pre-test and post-test with control group. These people selected availability and divided to two groups of 10 people of experiment and control. Both of group complete the Beck depression questionnaire and social self-efficacy (Smith and Betz,2000) before and after the treatment. Therapy sessions held during 8 sessions of 1.5 hours. The results of covariance analysis test showed that short time activation therapy intervention of behavioral had cause to decrease the depression in these women but not effective in social Self-efficacy. (P<0.05).