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The purpose of the research is to study the effect of cognitive behavioral therapy that is applied to university students that have depressive symptoms. Beck Depression Scale has been applied to 203 students who are being educated at university. 20 students that have the highest depressive symptoms have been chosen. Two groups have been created as 10 students for experimental group, 10 students for control group that has similar arithmetic mean and standart deviation. During 8 weeks, group counseling activities have been applied sessionally to experimental group. By the end of the sessions, Beck Depression Scale have been applied. According to the results of the research, it has been approved that group counselling that is cognitive behavioral therapy based has decreased the depressive symptoms of students remarkably. 

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