Negar Karimian; Mahmoud Glozari; Ahmad Borjali
Volume 2, Issue 8 , February 2012, , Pages 119-138
Abstract
The addicts experience various forms of mental stress in their daily lives. Inability to handle the stress reduces their quality of life and thus increases their dependence on drug.
The present article seeks to study the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral stress management therapy in improving the ...
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The addicts experience various forms of mental stress in their daily lives. Inability to handle the stress reduces their quality of life and thus increases their dependence on drug.
The present article seeks to study the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral stress management therapy in improving the male addict's quality of life.
In a pilot study, 30 male addicts in a rehabilitation center in Isfahan were selected through random sampling to represent the experimental group (15 patients) and control group (15 patients). The experimental group received ten 90-minute sessions of cognitive-behavioral stress management therapy while the control group received no treatment. All the patients completed the SF-36 questionnaire at the beginning of the study, at its end and 3 months after its completion. The data were analyzed using the descriptive statistics and analysis of covariance.
The results of the covariance analysis demonstrated a significant difference between the two groups regarding the improvement of the quality of life. The experimental group received higher scores in both the post-test and follow-up test (p<005).
The cognitive-behavioral stress management therapy has a significant impact on improving the male addicts' quality of life.
saeed musavi pour; mahmud golzari
Abstract
This research is about effectiveness of therapeutic community on attribute style change of addicts. For this purpose two groups were selected. Experimental group is 25 addict persons from hejrat therapeutic community institute and 28 addict persons as control group that were selected from shahid family ...
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This research is about effectiveness of therapeutic community on attribute style change of addicts. For this purpose two groups were selected. Experimental group is 25 addict persons from hejrat therapeutic community institute and 28 addict persons as control group that were selected from shahid family addiction institute. At first because of determine of therapeutic community effectiveness on attribute style change of addicts. Each group discrepancy scours were calculated. After that for determining of effectiveness of therapeutic community on attribute style change of addicts mean difference of two independence groups ewre accounted by t test.
Z. Lashani; M. R. Shaeiri; M. A. Asghari Moghadam; M. Golzari
Volume 1, Issue 4 , February 2011, , Pages 134-151
Abstract
Gratitude is a contruct that attracts much attention in recent decades. Also gratitude used to correlational, comparative and interventional studies. This study is examination of effect of training strategies for gratitude increase (based on the Emmons & Seligman pattern) on the expansion of positive ...
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Gratitude is a contruct that attracts much attention in recent decades. Also gratitude used to correlational, comparative and interventional studies. This study is examination of effect of training strategies for gratitude increase (based on the Emmons & Seligman pattern) on the expansion of positive affectivity, happiness and optimism. Subjects were 91 student of three Iranian University in Iran, they were selected by cluster sampling and complete satisfaction form for this study. Then, 72 subject's remaind until the end of interventions. Finally, they were assigned into to 4 groups (Emmons, Seligman, Verbal-Action & Control) randomly. They completed PANAS Scale and Axford Questionnaire. The results showed significant increase in positive affects by Emmons, Seligman and V-A interventions, and increase in happiness by Seligman and V-A interventions. The results also indicated that three training strategies for gratitude increase positive affectivity and happiness.