en مشاوره Counseling پژوهشي Original Research Articles <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Objectives:</strong> The main purpose of this research was to study the effectiveness of positive thinking skills training on increasing happiness of male adolescents with physical-mobility disability.<br> <strong>Methods:</strong> In this study an experimental research design with pre-test, post-test, and control group is used. All adolescents (boys) having disabled physical mobility from all the high schools in southern parts of Tehran in the year 2012-2103 were our statistical community. Among them, 16 students were selected by two-stage sampling, including purposive sampling and random sampling. The samples were randomly divided into two groups: experimental and control groups. Positive thinking skills were performed in 8 sessions of 45 minutes each (twice a week) for the experimental group. In this study, happiness questionnaire was used for collecting data. Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) and Statistical Package for Social Science 16 (SPSS 16) programs were used for statistical analysis.&nbsp;<br> <strong>Results:</strong> Results of the analysis indicated that positive thinking skills training had a significant and positive effect on increasing happiness of adolescents with impaired physical mobility in the experimental group (P<0.01).<br> <strong>Discussion:</strong> Positive thinking skills training can increase the happiness scores of adolescents with disabled physical mobility. Thus, we can say that method used in this study can be appropriate for psycho-educational interventions and counseling of physical mobility disabled male students.&nbsp;</p> Mental health rehabilitation, Physical disabled, Positive thinking, Happiness 221 226 http://irj.uswr.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-541-2&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Mohammad Rostami mo.rostami@uswr.ac.ir No Department of Counseling, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Erfan Soleimani Sefat Erfan67soleimani@gmail.com No Department of Counseling, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Shayesteh Nejati shayesteh.nejati@gmail.com No Birjand Campus of Imam Sajjad, Farhangian University, Birjand, Iran. Zeinab Mohammad Alipur z.alipour1989@gmail.com No Department of Consuling, Faculty of Psychology and Education, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran. Maedeh Naghiyaee maedehnaghiyaee@yahoo.com No Department of Counseling, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Amirhosain Hosainpour ahp442@yahoo.com No Department of Counseling, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Jalal Younesi jyounesi@uswr.ac.ir Yes Department of Counseling, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran.