Hope Therapy Protocol
It includes defining hope and its various aspects such as
introducing goals and its kinds as a part of hope increase
process, making a framework for discovering goals, presenting
strategies to set clear and realistic goals in various
levels, preparing a list of goals, prioritizing them and
selecting one goal to be worked at in the group, highlighting
the importance of intention, goal, and meaning
in the life, presenting ways of increasing motivation and
mental and physical will in pursuing goals, and improving
the role of hope in depression symptoms and goals
persuasion (18). The reliability for hope therapy reported
0.76. Cheavens et al. (25) study has indicated acceptable
internal consistency for the State Hope Therapy with alphas
ranging from 0.79 to 0.95.