Introduction: research was implemented with the aim of developing a psychological self-care educational model and its effectiveness on the self-compassion of vulnerable teenagers.



Method: mixed research was of an exploratory type, which was used in the qualitative part of the narrative research method and in the quantitative part of the semi-experimental design of pre-test, post-test and follow-up with the control group. population of this research consists of teenage. in the qualitative part, after interviewing samples , theoretical saturation was done in a targeted way, and in the quantitative part, were selected by non-random sampling method. The research tool in the qualitative part of the interview was semi-structured and was used in the quantitative scale of self-compassion.

After developing the psychological self-care educational model, the subjects of the experimental group were exposed to the intervention.The data were analyzed using the mixed covariance analysis method.



Results: In the qualitative investigation of the phenomenology of the components of self-care after coding the categories, five main themes of intrapersonal psychological self-care capacities, interpersonal psychological self-care, self-care evaluation, facilitators and threats of self-care and psychological self-care strategies were counted. In the quantitative part, the results of the data analysis indicated that there is a significant difference in the scores of the self-compassion variable in the intervention group between the pre-test and post-test stages and the pre-test and follow-up .



Discussion: the educational of psychological self-care focusing on self-efficacy, source of control, emotion regulation and problem solving leads to the improvement of self-compassion of vulnerable teenagers.