The effect of training the techniques of first, second, and third waves of psychotherapy on the self-control of students

Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of training the first, second and third waves of psychotherapy techniques on self-control of students. Materials and Methods: From all primary school students in Hamedan, four groups of 15 people were selected using the convenience sampling method. For three groups, it is instructed one of the first, second or third waves of psychotherapy techniques. After 3 training sessions, participants were examined "Marshmallow" famous situation individually. During the experiment, the child's behavior was recorded and then analyzed. The first data included the amount of time that the subject could delay the delight. Also, the success or failure in this experiment for each group was another result of this study. The data were analyzed using the ANOVA and Chi-square test by SPSS software. Results: The findings of this study showed that there was a significant difference among the first, second and third waves of psychotherapy in the level of self-control of the participants and these three waves had a significant difference with the control group (P<0.05). Also, the success or failure of the participants in the three groups was significantly different from the control group. Conclusion: According to the findings of this study, training the first, second and third waves of psychotherapy techniques can be effective on self-control of students and improve it.