Clinical Psychology Studies

Abstract Today mental health of staff is one of the concerns of the concerns of researchers and managers of departments and agencies. In this way it seems coping skills as ine of cognitive strategies bring healthy habits and prevent psychological and physical damage caused by stress. Research suggests that a person who knows of coping strategies and applys them properly his mental health will be guaranteed. Therefor the present study investigated the effectiveness of coping skills training on geraral health and self esteem of women employees in NAJA. Research methodology is pre experimental single group with pre test and post test. 15 female NAJA employees in Tehran who were available sample were trained in 10 session for coping skills. General health questionnaire and self esteem inventory of cooper smith were used to collect data. Also dependent test was used for analysis.

Abstract The aim of this study was to investigate the activation pattern of maladaptive schems in patients with obsessive compulsive disorder. For this porpose 42 patients with OCD and 70 subjects as control group were studied. They were administered SCL90-R and structured clinical interview for diagnosis of DSM-IV mental disorder the young schema questionnaire short form the young parenting inventory and the yale brown obsessive compulsive scal . the YSQ total score of the OCD group was significantly highe than the control group. The average score of the patient with OCD on most schemas were significantly higher than the average score of the control group. This study demonstrates that in addition to significant relation between SCL90-R total scores with YSQ YPI-F and YPI-M most important of the early maladaptive schemas including: entitlement, unrelenting standards

Abstract This research aimed to study the effectiveness of therapeutic community on attribute style of addicts. For this purpose two groups were studied. Experimental group were 25 addicte 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 attribution style of addicts. Each group discrepancy scours were calculated.

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 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.

Abstract The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of mindfulness and emotion regulation trainings on general health in chemical victims. Research method of current study was multi groups experimental with pretest post test and follow up in tow experimental and one control groups. 48 of chemical warfare victims in sardasht city with high score in general health questionnaire randomly selected and assigned in mindfulness based stress reduction training emotional regulation training and control groups. General health questionnaire used for gathering of data and mixed analysis of variance for analyzing of data. Results indicated that average scores of mental health were meaningfully improved in mindfulness training group than emotional regulation training group and in emotional regulation group control group in both post test and follow up.

Abstract Recent studies indicating that exploring mental problems of prisoners one providing mental health services for them were the most important areas for psychologists and psychiatrists; according to the spread on abnormalities and personality disorders in the prisoners in comparison with normal population so the necessity of psychotherapies is well informed for them. The purpose of this study was to exploring the effectiveness of humanistic existential group therapy in reducing sysptoms of borderline personality disorder. In this study 105 male prisoners eith borderline personality disorder were determined using preliminary screening of 400 prisoners in central prison in bojnourd city and 34 of them were selected using random sampling. According to the results humanistic existential group therapy could be a selective therapy in treatment of borderline personality disorder.

Abstract His research has been some to constructing a valid instrument to evaluate of quality of life and subjective well being. 500 teachers from different sector of Tehran city systematic randomly completed the quality of life questionnaire and subjective well being scale. The results showed that there is a significant relationship between sub scales of quality of life with life satisfaction as a sub scale of subjective well being but not with subjective well being have a good quality of life is not mean as a good subjective well being because a good quality of live can produce a life satisfaction of life but not to produce a good subjective well being.