The aim of present study was to determine the effectiveness of cognitive- behavioral stress management on increasing psychological, emotional and social well-being in non-native freshman university students who affected by homesickness state. 88 students were screened based on acquiring scores upper than mean (one standard deviation higher than mean) among 228 non-native freshman, who found to be suffering homesickness. Forty students were selected by simple random sampling assigned into the intervention and control groups. With a pre-test and post-test control group design, subjects in the experimental group, undergone 10 sessions of cognitivebehavioral stress management training both groups were evaluated using well-being questionnaire in pre-test and post-test, data analyzed by MANCOVA. Findings show that there were not significant differences between two groups in pretest, but cognitive-behavioral stress management training, significantly increases psychological, emotional and social well-being scores in experimental group. The cognitive behavioral stress management training, could be intervention program in target groups and general population in university counseling centers, and with enhancing psychological well-being of university students, increase education to productivity of university.
