Introduction: this research has been carried out among drug-quitting addict women to study the effectiveness of self-encouragement training on social and psychological well-being.
Method: This research is of semi-experimental kind accompanied by pretest – post-test and follow-up with an experimental group. The statistical universe includes 20 of addict women under, so 10 people were placed in experiment group randomly. Experiment group was exposed to a self-encouragement training for 10 sessions of 120 minutes. They were evaluated before and after training intervention by Kizz social well-being questionnaire (1998) and Reef psychological well-being questionnaire (1980) and then 3 months after training, again they were followed up. The data were analyzed by variance analysis test with repeated measurement and post test.
Results: self-encouragement training showed a significant difference in social and psychological scales as compared with before training.
Conclusion: self-encouragement training can greatly help to situation of social and psychological well-being of drug-quitting women.