Zhaleh feyzi; alireza moradi; Mohammad Khaje dalouee; Nayyereh khadem
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Act is one of the third generation therapies in which there is trying to alter the one ̓s relationship with his or her thoughts and feelings instead of changing the cognitions. The aim of this research is to evaluate the efficacy of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) on reducing depression and ...
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Act is one of the third generation therapies in which there is trying to alter the one ̓s relationship with his or her thoughts and feelings instead of changing the cognitions. The aim of this research is to evaluate the efficacy of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) on reducing depression and anxiety in infertile women who undergoing In vitro fertilization (IVF). ACT has not used for reducing anxiety and depression in pregnant women before. In this study Quasi-experimental pretest-posttest and follow up with control group was used. Among women who had primary or secondary infertility, undergoing IVF, and were at 14-22 weeks gestational age, available sampling was conducted. 35 women with above feature, assigned to experiment (17) and control (18) groups randomly. SCID and BDI-II and BAI were used for assessing depression and anxiety; before the intervention and after it; and all of them repeated one month after ending the intervention. The experimental group participated in 8sessions of ACT, which lasted 90 minutes weekly; while control group didn't undergo any training. To examine the hypothesis, mixed analysis of variance between - the subjects (SPANOVA) was used. Analysis of mixed variance of the effects between-groups for depression and anxiety showed the significant level was less than 0/05. Thus with 95% reliability, it can be resulted that Act was effective for decreasing of depression and anxiety in experimental group. The results indicated by creating psychological flexibility, ACT decreased depression and anxiety in pregnant women who undergoing IVF significantly. This reduction remained one month after ending of intervention. It seems acceptance and commitment therapy as a complementary treatment, in addition to medical treatments for infertility, improves the health of the mother and fetus during pregnancy and can have an important role.
Manijeh Daneshpour
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Families develop shared worldviews called family paradigms, an ordered set of beliefs about the social world that are sensibly connected to the ways families actually respond to and interact with their social world and which help or hinder their problem solving abilities. Evidence suggests that these ...
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Families develop shared worldviews called family paradigms, an ordered set of beliefs about the social world that are sensibly connected to the ways families actually respond to and interact with their social world and which help or hinder their problem solving abilities. Evidence suggests that these paradigms are generally built in and endure and regulate transactions with the family's social environment. Under stress, however, a family may alter its paradigm as a result of transactions with the environment. Using a family system paradigm, this presentation will examine the theoretical literature in search of a better way of understanding stress and its management in families. Multiple causes and multifaceted coping strategies, and the advantages and disadvantages of management strategies in families will be highlighted.
Soheila Ghomian; mohammad reza shaeiri
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The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of acceptance and commitment therapy for children with chronic pain on internalizing symptoms of 7 to 12 year-old children. In this quasi-experimental study, a number of children suffering from chronic pain were selected by available sampling method ...
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The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of acceptance and commitment therapy for children with chronic pain on internalizing symptoms of 7 to 12 year-old children. In this quasi-experimental study, a number of children suffering from chronic pain were selected by available sampling method from specialty and subspecialty pediatric hospitals of Tehran (Such as Children's Mofid, Children's Medical Center, Hazrat Ali Asghar and Bahrami), in 2014. Then, among the children, 20 children who according to their parents were prepared to participate in this study and met the inclusion criteria, were selected and placed in the experimental group (n = 10) and control group (n = 10). The CHACT protocol applied on the experiment group, for 8 sessions. The Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) was administered in both groups at the pre-test, post-test, first and second follow-up (Respectively, 1.5 and 5 months after treatment) and analyzed with MANCOVA analysis of variance. The results showed that the experimental group compared with the control group showed significant change in internalizing symptoms in multiple stages. These changes continued after the treatment, first and secondary follow-up. Generally, it can be said that this protocol can be used in clinical fields, especially in the area of improving the internalizing symptoms of children.
Mahboubeh Bagheri; karineh tahmassian; Mohammad Ali Mazaheri
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Mindful Parenting is a new application of mindfulness which aims to improve parenting through promoting the quality of parental attention and emotional awareness. Parent Management Training also focuses on the quality of parent-child relationship and involves learning new skills in order to modify children's ...
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Mindful Parenting is a new application of mindfulness which aims to improve parenting through promoting the quality of parental attention and emotional awareness. Parent Management Training also focuses on the quality of parent-child relationship and involves learning new skills in order to modify children's behavior. This study aimed to compare the efficacy of mindful parenting and parent management training integrative program and parent management training program on psychological wellbeing and happiness of children. The research method was experimental including pretest-posttest with a control group design. The study population included all children in fourth to sixth grade in District 8 of Qom city in 96-95 school year, accompanied by their mothers. The sample included 41 children from fourth to sixth grade accompanied by their mothers that were selected by convenient sampling and assigned in experimental and control groups by random sampling. Research tools used on mothers included the mindful parenting and parent management training integrative program, 4-item happiness questionnaire and interpersonal mindfulness in parenting. Circular Mood and psychological wellbeing scale were the tools that were used on children. Participants completed the research tools in three phases of pretest, posttest and follow up. One group received mindful parenting and parent management training integrative program, while another group received only parent management training in 8 sessions, each 2 hours per week at a meeting. Mixed analysis of variance showed that the integrative program was more effective than parent management training in psychological wellbeing (F=7/57/ P<0/01) and these changes remained constant in follow up phase. There were no any differences between the two groups in happiness. Higher efficacy of integrative program in psychological wellbeing can be dependent upon application of mindful parenting principals. It seems that mindful parenting causes enrichment in parent- child relationship and consequently increases psychological well-being in children through mechanisms such as listening with full attention, accepting without judgment, compassion, self-regulation and emotional consciousness.
Ali Akbar Haddadi Kuhsar; alireza moradi; Bagher Ghobari Bonab; Farnad Imani
Volume 8, Issue 31 , July 2018, , Pages 1-30
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The main aim of the current study was to compare the effectiveness of spiritual therapy based on Iranian culture with mindfulness based on reduction stress (MBSR) in reducing depression, anxiety and stress in patients with chronic pain. All subjects who are suffer from Muscular-Skeletal ...
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The main aim of the current study was to compare the effectiveness of spiritual therapy based on Iranian culture with mindfulness based on reduction stress (MBSR) in reducing depression, anxiety and stress in patients with chronic pain. All subjects who are suffer from Muscular-Skeletal disease were recruited from Hazrat-e-Rassoul Hospital, (Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran). Design of the study was quasi experimental pretest-posttest-control group design with follow-up stage. 45 patients randomly were assigned in three groups: Spiritual therapy, mindfulness therapy and control group. Each group constituted of intervention comprised of eight 90-minutes-sessions. Demographic information’s and depression, anxiety and stress scale were used to gather data. Data were analyzed with analysis of variance with repeated measurement. Analysis of data revealed that spiritual therapy and mindfulness therapy were not significantly different in reduction depression, anxiety and stress in patients with chronic pain (These treatment were equally effective). More ever, comparing pairs in groups revealed that depression, anxiety and stress were different in treatment and follow up stages. Both spiritual therapy and mindfulness therapy were different from the control group. Spiritual therapy and mindfulness therapy were lower in depression, anxiety and stress in compare to control group. In other word effectiveness of spiritual therapy and mindfulness therapy were more than control group in patients with chronic pain. Results showed that spiritual therapy and mindfulness therapy were effective in reduction of depression, anxiety and stress in patients with chronic pain.
Isa Moradi; Maryam Fatehizade; ahmad ahmadi; Ozra etemadi
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Narcissism has many negative interpersonal consequences, and marital relationship is an appropriate context for many of these consequences. The present study aimed to investigate the efficacy of metacognitive interpersonal therapy on couple interactive damages in narcissistic man. In this research, a ...
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Narcissism has many negative interpersonal consequences, and marital relationship is an appropriate context for many of these consequences. The present study aimed to investigate the efficacy of metacognitive interpersonal therapy on couple interactive damages in narcissistic man. In this research, a single subject method with A-B-A design was used. For this purpose, two couples (4 people) were selected through purposive sampling. For men, after determining the baseline level, 21 intervention sessions were performed and their wives completed questionnaires at the same time. Semi-structured interviews (SCID), narcissistic personality inventory (NPI-40) and researcher-made Interactive damages Inventory was used. In order to analyze the collected data, visual analysis, trend index and stability index, percentage of non-overlapping data (PND) and percentage of overlapping data (POD) were used. According to the visual analyses of the data diagrams, the intervention was effective on the 4 subjects. The mean scores of 4 subjects in the baseline have decreased from 212.66, 224.33, 193.0 and 245.66 to 101.0, 113.0, 84.66 and 115.0, respectively. The percentage of non-overlapping data (PND) in the two baseline and intervention situations for the 4 subjects was 100%. The maximum percentage of improvement (MPI) was higher than 50% for all 4 participants that indicated a clinically meaningful effect. This effectiveness was observable in the follow-up stage. The results of this study showed that MIT due to focus on self-awareness, interpersonal circles and schemas can reduce the couple interactive damages of narcissistic man.
Azam Nayebaghayee; Seyed Ali Aleyasin; Hassan Heidari; Hosein Davodi
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The present study aimed at investigating the effectiveness of metacognitive therapy on dysfunctional beliefs, inflated sense of responsibility, and intolerance of uncertainty in patients with obsessive compulsive-disorder (OCD). The design used in the present study is semi-experimental, pretest-posttest ...
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The present study aimed at investigating the effectiveness of metacognitive therapy on dysfunctional beliefs, inflated sense of responsibility, and intolerance of uncertainty in patients with obsessive compulsive-disorder (OCD). The design used in the present study is semi-experimental, pretest-posttest with control group and a tree-month follow-up stage. The statistical population consisted of all patients with OCD in Mahallat, a city located in Markazi province, Iran in 2018. The participants first screened by using inclusion and exclusion criteria. Then sixteen patients with OCD selected as the sample of the study through available sampling method and assigned randomly into two groups: one experimental group and one control group (eight patients in each group). Each participant in the experimental group received 12 treatment sessions according to Well's metacognitive therapy method for OCD. The participants were measured both before and after interventions as well as three months later in the follow-up phase by the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (Yale-BOCS; Goodman, 1989), the Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire (OBQ-44; OCCWG, 2005), the Salkovskis Responsibility Attitude Scale (RAS; Salkovskis, 2000) and the Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale (IUS; Feriston, 1994). Data analyzed by multivariate co-variance analysis. The results indicated that metacognitive therapy had a significant effect on reducing dysfunctional beliefs, the inflated sense of responsibility and the variable intolerance of uncertainty (p˂0.050), and its effect remained three months after treatment (p˂0.050). The findings of the study support the effect of metacognitive therapy in improving the dysfunctional beliefs, inflated sense of responsibility and uncertainty of intolerance in patients with OCD.
Avideh Najibzadeh; Hossien Skandari; Javad Khalatbari; abolfazl karami
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Master Narratives are shared, sociocultural stories that contain common concepts within a specific culture and could be elicited from the personal narratives. These massive societal structures are originally the context of personal narratives as they offer appropriate material for personal narratives. ...
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Master Narratives are shared, sociocultural stories that contain common concepts within a specific culture and could be elicited from the personal narratives. These massive societal structures are originally the context of personal narratives as they offer appropriate material for personal narratives. The cultural narratives are not frozen and fixed in time; they modify and transform through history. Cultural meanings have been altered down the generations and the dominant narratives have inspired individuals in making their life narrative accounts. This study aims to reach the repetitive themes and the common contents of individuals’ personal narratives by analyzing them with quantitative and qualitative methods. To do so we conducted an open interview to collect the life narratives of 30 adults around the potentially conflictual identity issue of religious and sexual development. Participants also answered the HEXACO personality inventory and the Circumplex Religious Orientation Inventory (CROI). In the quantitative part, we analyzed the narratives conducting McAdams’ (1999) reliable coding schemes. In the qualitative part, the master narrative model proposed by Syed and McLean (2015) was used for the analysis. Results illustrated common repetitive themes in life narrative accounts which are considered as common societal stories. Within the massive sociocultural context, the Religious Traditional Master Narrative is in contrast with the Modern Alternative Narrative and this enormous conflict has been reflected in individuals’ identity structure. Individuals internalize this conflict while internalizing the religious traditional master narrative and negotiating with the modern alternative one. In addition, Tradition has been identified as an autonomous factor which functions independently from the religion within the cultural context of Iran.
Hassan Shahi; Khodamorad Momeni; Jahangir Karami; Emad Ashrafi
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This article has two main parts. The first section introduces the model of "Marital Paradigms" (Willoughby et al., 2015). In this conceptualization, all the beliefs of a person (woman or man) about marriage and marital life can be categorized in two distinct areas: "Beliefs about Getting Married" and ...
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This article has two main parts. The first section introduces the model of "Marital Paradigms" (Willoughby et al., 2015). In this conceptualization, all the beliefs of a person (woman or man) about marriage and marital life can be categorized in two distinct areas: "Beliefs about Getting Married" and "Beliefs about Being Married". "Beliefs about Getting Married" represent one's beliefs about "marriage" and its importance in life, as well as a general view of how it is done. These beliefs consist of three distinct dimensions: "Marital Timing" (one's view of the ideal and expected timing for marriage, the expected length of love), "Marital Salience" (individual beliefs about the relative importance and global importance of marriage and getting married), "Marital Context" (beliefs and attitudes about the context in which marriage should occur). "Beliefs about Being Married" represent one's beliefs about the nature and methods of managing marital life. These beliefs also have three distinct dimensions: "Marital Processes" (beliefs about how the marriage process should take place, including beliefs about gender roles (Marital Roles), beliefs about attempting to make marital life (Marital Efforts), and other marriage-related processes), "Marital Centrality" (it is based on beliefs about the importance of marital/spouse's role in relation to other roles played by an adult married person), and "Marital Permanence" (beliefs about the commitment to marry and the admissibility of divorce). In the second section, the study of "Marital Paradigms" among Iranian youths (male and female) and gender-related comparisons of six dimensions are discussed. The research sample consisted of 644 students (323 females and 321 males) who entered the study using stratified sampling (stratums: gender, universities, academic grades). To measure Marital Paradigms, "Marital Paradigms Scale" (MPS) (Willoughby and Hall, 2015) was used. The results of the study showed that men and women have different patterns of Marital Paradigms. Meanwhile
Ali Akbar Eftekhari; Hamidreza Vakilifard
Volume 4, Issue 15 , January 2015, , Pages 1-24
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Criticisms to efficient market theory and its rational assumptions as well as econometric analyses on pricing time series, DPS and incomes led to the development of models that related psychology to financial markets. Subsequently, researchers found many exceptions in financial markets and concluded ...
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Criticisms to efficient market theory and its rational assumptions as well as econometric analyses on pricing time series, DPS and incomes led to the development of models that related psychology to financial markets. Subsequently, researchers found many exceptions in financial markets and concluded that psychological phenomena play an important role in determining behavior in financial markets. In this research, different types of investors’ behavior have been analyzed in different time scales. The authors have designed a general model for capital market of Iran using the time series data of Tehran Stock Exchange companies reported from 2006 to 2010. Wavelet analysis was used as a statistical and analytical instrument to explain trait and multi resolution . Research results show that investors have different reactions after good or bad news. Their reaction in long term scale is more significant than that in short term scale. However, no significant difference was found among investors behavior in different industries.
Ali Farnam; Mohammad Hamidi
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The purpose of present study was to examine the effectiveness of positivism training on hope enhancement with regard to holly Qur’an and Islamic trainings among Sistan and Baluchestan education and training organization employees. The population of this research consisted of 300 employees that ...
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The purpose of present study was to examine the effectiveness of positivism training on hope enhancement with regard to holly Qur’an and Islamic trainings among Sistan and Baluchestan education and training organization employees. The population of this research consisted of 300 employees that 50 of them were selected randomly as sample and were placed into two groups (25 employees for experimental group and 25 employees for control group). The research method was semi-experimental. The experimental group received 8 weekly 90-minute sessions of positivism training emphasizing holly Qur’an and Islamic issues and the control group did not receive any treatment. All subjects were assessed by Snyder’s hope (2002) questionnaire; before treatment and 2-month follow up stage. Data were analyzed with multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). The results showed that experimental group had enhancement in hope, in both post-test and follow up.
Mosayyeb Yārmohammadi-Vāsel; Fātemeh Qāemi; Fātemeh Qannādi
Volume 2, Issue 6 , February 2012, , Pages 3-39
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Therapeutic Community Approach (TC) knows the problem to exist within the person not in drugs. This approach also considers addiction as a disease that encompasses the whole personality of the addict; therefore, the problem that should be targeted is the addict not the drug. The main goal of treatment ...
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Therapeutic Community Approach (TC) knows the problem to exist within the person not in drugs. This approach also considers addiction as a disease that encompasses the whole personality of the addict; therefore, the problem that should be targeted is the addict not the drug. The main goal of treatment is to make changes in the attitudes, behavior, values and thoughts of the patient, to make them consistent with a healthy lifestyle and to reinforce their clean time.
Therapeutic community is a treatment protocol developed based on concepts and treatments relating to social learning, and issues of cognitivism, behaviorism, Gestalt psychology, humanism, and psychoanalysis; it can, therefore, create multi-dimensional changes in the drug abuser. In TC, recovery requires rehabilitation, relearning or re-establishment of abilities to make possible a positive life aimed at achievement of physical and emotional health.
While the number of patients admitted to TC may vary between 30 and 2000, clinical experience has shown that the number of 40-80 patients in the TC may have the best efficiency. Community in TC comprises the four basic components of social context, social expectations, social assessment and social feedback. TC period for patients consists of the five phases of orientation, treatment, pre-reentry, reentry and follow-up. Data analysis has shown TC to be an approach that helps people with problems of substance abuse and comorbid psychological disorders. Meanwhile, the results demonstrated the effectiveness of TC on mental symptoms including depression, paranoid thoughts, morbid symptoms, obsession-compulsion, aggressive crimes, criminal behavior, physical complaint, problem in social relationship, and anxiety disorder. As a result, therapeutic community interventions can be helpful for people with drug abuse and comorbid psychological disorders.
Mohammad Khodayarifard; Saeed Akbari-Zardkhaneh
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Historically, psychologists have been interested in categorizing and measurement of coping styles. Moreover, development of culture-specific measures has been neglected in the coping literature. The present study is intended to develop and validate a parsimonious and broad measure of coping style in ...
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Historically, psychologists have been interested in categorizing and measurement of coping styles. Moreover, development of culture-specific measures has been neglected in the coping literature. The present study is intended to develop and validate a parsimonious and broad measure of coping style in Iran. An item pool of 80 items was administered on a random sample of 911 university students in ten groups. A principled components analysis was performed on a subsample and a confirmatory factor analysis was performed on the remaining subsample. Twelve concurrent measures were used to ensure concurrent validity. A principled components analysis suggested a nine-factor solution. A confirmatory factor analysis on a distinct subsample confirmed the nine-factor structure. Subscales were labeled as turning to religion, procrastination, positivity, self-blame, avoidance, seeking social support, problem solving, wishful thinking, and passivity. All subscales were significantly correlated with theoretically related constructs. Alpha coefficients of the subscales ranged from 0.77 (problem solving) to 0.92 (turning to religion). The present study developed and validated the 45-item Iranian Coping Style Scale (ICSS) with nine subscales. Therefore, ICSS may be used as a reliable and valid measure of coping styles in research and clinical settings.
Hossein Eskandari
Volume 5, Issue 18 , May 2015, , Pages 15-22
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This paper outlines some of the issues and challenges arisen with the inappropriate employment of schema therapy and poses some critiques about schema theory and eventually explain what factors influences the development of schema therapy despite of its complication and difficulty.
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This paper outlines some of the issues and challenges arisen with the inappropriate employment of schema therapy and poses some critiques about schema theory and eventually explain what factors influences the development of schema therapy despite of its complication and difficulty.
Kourosh Goodarzi (M.A); Faramarz Sohrabi (Ph.D); Noorali Farrokhi( Ph.D); Farhad Jomehri(Ph.D)
Volume 1, Issue 1 , December 2011, , Pages 15-42
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he interactional effect of Spiritual Intelligence (SQ) and life skills training (LST) on university students` mental health were carried out in a randomized block designs study. At first, 166 male & female university students were randomly selected out of 11370 students at Islamic Azad University ...
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he interactional effect of Spiritual Intelligence (SQ) and life skills training (LST) on university students` mental health were carried out in a randomized block designs study. At first, 166 male & female university students were randomly selected out of 11370 students at Islamic Azad University in Borujerd. Then Spiritual Intelligence questionnaires (Naseri & Sohrabi, 1386), and Symptoms Checklist-90- Revised (Derogatis at al, 1975), were filled out as the pretest by the subjects. On the basis of the results of the Spiritual Intelligence questionnaire, the subjects were divided into four groups. Two experimental groups, one with a higher SQ and the other with a lower SQ & two control groups, one with a higher SQ and the other with a lower SQ. The experimental groups in two separate classes of students with higher and lower SQ took part in 16 sessions of 3 hours of the LST based on instructional pattern of WHO (1996,1999), in a time span of 8 weeks. At the end of the course, they filled out SCL90-R questionnaire for the second time as the post test. Finally, after four months in order to figure out the stability or possible changes in the results, once more, in a follow-up study, the SCL90-R questionnaire was administered. The results of statistical test of Independent-Samples T test was used to analyze indicated that SQ and LST separately have a significant effect on the students` mental health, though in an interaction with each other, the two aforementioned factors have no a significant effect the students` mental health.
Z. Vadadian (M. A); B. A. Ghanbari Hashemabadi; A. Mashhadi
Volume 1, Issue 4 , February 2011, , Pages 18-42
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This research has been conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of group therapy on solving parent-adolescent conflicts and reduction of aggression in young adult children. Research method was chosen to be semi-experimental with pre-test, post-test, witness-group and repeated measurement. Research society ...
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This research has been conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of group therapy on solving parent-adolescent conflicts and reduction of aggression in young adult children. Research method was chosen to be semi-experimental with pre-test, post-test, witness-group and repeated measurement. Research society consisted of 25 young adult girl between 14 and 15 years of age and their parents which were chosen voluntarily among people who came to psychological clinics of regions 4 and 5 of ministry of education in Mashhad. To obtain preliminary data, to measure the severity of conflicts PCRS was utilized and to measure aggressive behavior of children Aggression Questionnaire of Boss and Perry was used. Analysis of variance with repeated measurement and LSD follow up test was used to compare mean values. Results show that the success of group therapy with multiple families involved, in solving conflicts (P < 0.05). Results also indicated that group therapy has meaningfully increased positive feelings and dialogue between adolescents and their parents in comparison with two other control groups. However the hypothesis of reduction of aggression was not supported statistically
Fahimeh Pirsaghi; Ali Mohammad Nazari; Mehrdad Hajihassani; Hassan Nad-Alipour
Volume 4, Issue 16 , December 2014, , Pages 19-34
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The present study aims to study the effectiveness of selfdifferentiation therapy on assertiveness of female students of AllamehTabataba’i University. The research employed ...
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The present study aims to study the effectiveness of selfdifferentiation therapy on assertiveness of female students of AllamehTabataba’i University. The research employed a semi-experimentaldesign with pre-test and post-test. Using convenience samplingmethod, 20 subjects were selected from among first-yearundergraduate female students of the Faculty of Psychology andEducational Sciences, Allameh Tabataba’i University. The samplepopulated was randomly assigned into two groups, namely experimentand control groups, each consisting of 10 people. The experimentgroup received 8 sessions of self-differentiation therapy. The controlgroup received no intervention. The data was analyzed usingCovariance analysis. The results showed that self-differentiationtherapy was effective on improvement of assertiveness (P<0.01).Generally, it can be concluded that self-differentiation therapy helpedto increase the level of assertiveness of the participants.
Abolghasem Yaghoobi; Parisa Forotan Bagha; Hossein Mohagheghi
Volume 5, Issue 17 , May 2015, , Pages 19-33
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This study attempted to investigate the effectiveness of Schneider’s Hope Teaching theory on the attributional style of the students. Students type of attribution styles were investigated using Attributional Style Questionnaire (ASQ). The research was a quasi experimental one with pretest posttest, ...
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This study attempted to investigate the effectiveness of Schneider’s Hope Teaching theory on the attributional style of the students. Students type of attribution styles were investigated using Attributional Style Questionnaire (ASQ). The research was a quasi experimental one with pretest posttest, control group design. Total sample size was 24 and their experimental and control groups was random. The subjects in the experimental group received some courses on Hope during the eight session treatment period. After the required data was gathered, Covariance was used to analyze the data.The results revealed that Hope teaching increases positive attributional style (internal, stable, general) in positive situations Teaching decreases negative attributional style (external, unstable, local) in negative situations
Zohreh Tavakoli; Farhad Jomehri; Adis Kraskian Mojambari
Volume 5, Issue 19 , October 2015, , Pages 19-33
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Learning disorders could be prevented if identified before the elementary school; otherwise, they will bring about irremediable damages. Sensory integration refers to the reception and processing of the seven senses' information (motion, touch, pressure, vision, hearing, taste, and smelling). In a learning ...
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Learning disorders could be prevented if identified before the elementary school; otherwise, they will bring about irremediable damages. Sensory integration refers to the reception and processing of the seven senses' information (motion, touch, pressure, vision, hearing, taste, and smelling). In a learning disorder, sensory information is not carefully processed; therefore, one could treat a series of writing, reading and spelling disabilities as well as mathematical disorders by coordinating eyes and hands and motion control, etc. Spatial thinking exercises aim to boost children's ability for spatial and visual perception, establishing necessary coordination among the eyes, hands and other senses. In this technique, the statistical population of children with learning disorder was provided with sensory integration training and spatial thinking exercises for 2 months. The results suggest that sensory integration training and spatial thinking exercises lead to improved non-verbal intelligence in the children with learning disorder.
Yasser Rezapour Mirsaleh; Ma’soumeh Esma’ili; Kiomars Farahbakhsh; Muhammad Sa’id Zoka’i
Volume 3, Issue 10 , February 2013, , Pages 19-53
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The aim of the present study is to determine the dimensions of religious ontology in inner speech of religious couples with high marital adjustment. This was a qualitative study using semi-structured deep interview for 11 couples (11 wives and 11 husbands) with high marital adjustment. The couples were ...
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The aim of the present study is to determine the dimensions of religious ontology in inner speech of religious couples with high marital adjustment. This was a qualitative study using semi-structured deep interview for 11 couples (11 wives and 11 husbands) with high marital adjustment. The couples were selected by purposeful sampling till data saturation was reached. Grounded theory was used to analyze the data obtained from interviews. Data analysis revealed that religious ontology helped religious couples consider their marital relationship as a holy bound established by God to reach certain goals. Religious ontology yielded positive marital consequences in three direct ways and in one indirect way. Direct ways of religious ontology in couples were belief in God’s presence and surveillance in marital life, observation of religious practices, and belief in God’s help in marital life. The indirect influence of the religious ontology for couples was following the practice and the style of marital life of holy prophet of Islam (PBUH) and the Fourteen Infallibles (AS). Through these processes, religious ontology leads to peace, satisfaction, faithfulness as well as financial and spiritual perfection. Findings also showed that religious ontology positively influences marital life and can be used to develop a model for improving marital satisfaction by changing the ontology styles of the couples.
Reza Pourhossein; Farzad Farhoudi; Mohsen Amiri; Mahmoud Janbozorgi; Akram Reza’i Bidakhvidi; Fatemeh Nourollahi
Volume 4, Issue 14 , January 2014, , Pages 21-40
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The present study aimed to examine the relationship of suicidal thoughts, depression, anxiety, resilience, daily stress and mental health in university students. The study group consisted of 265 University of Tehran students. Subjects were asked to complete Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II), Beck Anxiety ...
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The present study aimed to examine the relationship of suicidal thoughts, depression, anxiety, resilience, daily stress and mental health in university students. The study group consisted of 265 University of Tehran students. Subjects were asked to complete Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II), Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation (BSI), Mental Health Scale, Daily Stress Scale and Resilience Scale. The data were analyzed using Pearson’s correlation coefficient and stepwise regression. Based on the results, a significant negative correlation existed between suicidal thoughts and resilience and self-esteem. Also, variables related to anxiety, depression, mental health and daily stress had a positive correlation with suicidal thoughts. The regression analysis indicated that depression was the strongest factor in predicting suicidal thoughts, and that anxiety, mental health, resilience and daily stress stood next in the line. The variables had a total 21 percent influence on the variance of suicidal thoughts. The study suggests that psychological and mental health problems, including anxiety and depression, along with other factors such as resilience and daily stress are important variables in recognizing and predicting suicidal thoughts Since symptoms of recurrent PTSD are sustaining and their emergence, growth and sustainability are to a large extent influenced by personal variables, and since these factors are connected to pretrauma maladaptive relationships which contribute to emergence of maladaptive schemas, the schema therapy targeted roots of the disorder and re-created maladaptive schemas, and it was thus successful in curing symptoms of recurrent trauma.
somayeh jamali paghaleh; Ahmad Abedi; marzieh nazari badi; Reza Mirzaeirad
Volume 3, Issue 12 , March 2013, , Pages 21-40
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The present research aims to compare the effectiveness of social-emotional learning program and social problem-solving training on the rate of oppositional defiant disorder. The statistical population included all the 3rd and 4th-grade male students with symptoms of oppositional defiant disorder in Isfahan ...
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The present research aims to compare the effectiveness of social-emotional learning program and social problem-solving training on the rate of oppositional defiant disorder. The statistical population included all the 3rd and 4th-grade male students with symptoms of oppositional defiant disorder in Isfahan city in the educational year 2010-2011. Using multistage sampling method, 45 subjects were selected from among the students of two random boy elementary schools. The participants were randomly assigned into three groups, each consisting of 15 students. The method applied in the research was that of quasi-experimental. The Oppositional Defiant Disorder Rating Scale and clinical interview were used to diagnose the disorder symptoms. Then, the two experiment groups received 7 sessions of two separate approaches of social-emotional learning and social problem-solving. The rate of oppositional defiant disorder symptoms was assessed in the three groups during two stages of pre-test and post-test. The data were analyzed using analysis of covariance. The results showed that the average scores of oppositional defiant symptoms in the two experiment groups was significantly lower than that of control group (p<0.001). The results also indicated that training both social-emotional and social problem-solving programs is effective in reducing the symptoms of oppositional defiant disorder. Therefore, the social-emotional learning and social problem-solving programs as the underlying skills of emotional intelligence, social learning and interpersonal relationships can be effective approaches in dealing with oppositional defiant disorder.
S. Zadhoosh (M. A. student); H. Taher Neshatdoost (Ph. D); F. Haghighat (M. A. student); K. Rasolzadeh Tabatabaie (Ph. D); M. Kalantari (Ph. D)
Volume 1, Issue 3 , February 2011, , Pages 21-42
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The present study was an attempt to investigate the impacts of behavioral-cognitive therapy group with religious oriented on the woman of marital satisfaction. The participants were 22 wives attending to clinics in Tehran. They were selected trough convenient sampling and divided into control and experimental ...
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The present study was an attempt to investigate the impacts of behavioral-cognitive therapy group with religious oriented on the woman of marital satisfaction. The participants were 22 wives attending to clinics in Tehran. They were selected trough convenient sampling and divided into control and experimental groups randomly. The experimental group received an 8- session- treatment but control group received no treatment. Therfore 22 woment who refered to psychologyical clinics in Tehran were selected by onhand sampling and randomly divided in to one experimental and one control group. the experimental group received 8 sessions of CBT techniques with religious oriented. The control group receve no intervention. The questionares were consisted of the enrich marital satisfaction inventory, and the attitud religous inventory.
The result of analysis of covariance showed that experimental group was significantly more effective than control group in increasing the marital satisfaction (p<0/0001(. The results of the present study verify the results of the previous related studies .Moreover, new guidelines for appropriate treatment of difference between the couples are also provided
Maedeh Abbastabar; Hadi hashemi; mohammadhosein abdollahi
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The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of the training of emotional competence in the improvement of anxiety, problem solving and working memory in children. It was a semi experimental research in which pre- test, post -test design with control group was used. Through the cluster ...
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The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of the training of emotional competence in the improvement of anxiety, problem solving and working memory in children. It was a semi experimental research in which pre- test, post -test design with control group was used. Through the cluster sampling method 30 female children were selected from the primary schools of Babol city and then they were randomly put into two experimental and control groups. The assessment was performed using Multi-dimensional Children's Anxiety Scale (MASC), Social Solution Scheduler (SPSI-R) and Dunnian and Carpenter Working Memory Test (1980). The experimental group received an emotional competence training program based on two, EBP emotion-based prevention programs (Izard et al2004, 2008) and Cole's emotional knowledge intervention (2009), adapted from Hesarsorkhi (1395), for 10 group sessions for 60 minute. There was no intervention in the control group. The results of one-variable and multivariate covariance analysis showed that there is a significant difference between the experimental group and control group in the post-test in anxiety score constructive problem solving and memory working in the children. The results of this study showed that emotional competence training program can be an effective way to reduce anxiety and increase the ability of constructive problem solving, working memory of children.
Hamid Khanipour; Ahmad Borjali; Parvaneh Mohammadkhani; Faramarz Sohrabi
Volume 4, Issue 13 , February 2014, , Pages 23-42
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The aim of this study was to examine effectiveness of Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) on depression and rumination symptoms in individuals with a major depression records. The study employed a single-case design with multiple baselines. MBCT was given to 4 patients with major depressive disorder ...
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The aim of this study was to examine effectiveness of Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) on depression and rumination symptoms in individuals with a major depression records. The study employed a single-case design with multiple baselines. MBCT was given to 4 patients with major depressive disorder over eight 1-hour sessions, and a follow-up was carried out one month later. Instruments used were the depression questionnaire, Beck depression inventory and the rumination response scale. Results showed that depression and rumination symptoms in the patients were reduced by 78 and 48 percent, respectively. The results were clinically significant for three patients. The study suggests that MBCT given in the form of individualized sessions can be an effective treatment for patients with major depressive disorder.
