Ali Pakizeh

The present study was conducted to investigate the effect of emotion-focused therapy on self-esteem and post-traumatic growth in girls with experiences of love failure, using a semi-experimental pretest-post-test design with a control group.The statistical population of the present study included female students ng at Shiraz University in the year 2024 who had experienced love failure, and the sample members were also selected purposefully. 30 out of 53 students who scored above the cutoff point in the love trauma symptoms questionnaire were randomly selected and placed into two groups of 15, experimental and control, using random assignment. The research tools included the Self-Worth Questionnaire (Doosti and Hosseini Nia, 2020) and the Post-Trauma Growth Questionnaire (Tedeschi and Calhoun, 1996). The members of the experimental group received emotion-focused group therapy in 12 two-hour sessions on a weekly basis, while the control group did not receive any treatment. Pretests and post-tests were conducted for both groups before and after the intervention. Univariate and multivariate analysis of covariance was used to analyze the data. The results of the study indicated that emotion-focused therapy led to a significant increase in self-esteem and post-traumatic growth in girls with experience of love failure (p < 0.05). Based on this, it can be concluded that emotionfocused therapy, combined with the increase of emotional awareness along with prediction mechanisms, control, and effective coping strategies, leads to an increase in self-esteem and posttraumatic growth.