Rooyesh-e- Ravanshenasi Journal(RRJ)

General health is important in social and personal performance of individuals. Students who have lower psychological well-being, are emotional and use physical control and emotion-focused problem solving. Also their time management is weak and have a negative perfectionism. This research has studied effectiveness of group counseling with transactional analysis approach in enhancing students' general health. That has been performed in the framework of quasi experiment with pre-post-test design of the control group. The students of Mohaghegh Arddabili university that participated in the call for group counseling and responded to the general health questionnaire, were the statistical society of research. , Two groups, include experimental and control group with ten member, were formed of those responded to general health questionnaire and their score were more than 21. The general Health Questionnaire was administered as pre-post test, before and after group counseling in both groups. Statistical analysis of the data collected was performed through the  independent t-test using the spss software. The results showed that using of group counseling with transactional analysis approach is effective in improving students' general health (p <0.5). Although students' Social interaction scores improved in experimental group, but this difference was not significant. The use of group counseling with transactional analysis approach is effective in improving students' general health. The used techniques were effective in reducing somatic symptoms, anxiety and depression. .