mental health in adolescents is influenced by several factors. body image is one of the factors in predicting mental health. moreover, it affects social communication and creates the social anxiety. the present study is cross-sectional and correlational. the statistical population is the guidance and high school students in shiraz in 2013-2014 that 180 students include 101 girls and 79 boys wer...

cognitive restructuring and exposure therapy have been integrated into a highly structured package for the treatment of social phobia termed cognitive-behavioral group therapy (cbgt). the first two sessions of cbgt for social phobia are devoted to training clients in the basic tenets of cognitive therapy. clients learn to identify their own irrational thoughts and to challenge the content of th...

this study has been performed with the goal of investigating the effectiveness of psychodrama on the reduction of social anxiety among the male adolescents in kermanshah. this is a quasi-experimental research study (pre-post and follow-up testing plan with control group). 210 adolescents (13-14 year-olds) from four junior high schools in kermanshah filled liebowitz social anxiety scale for chil...

all humans experience anxiety in your life and it is natural that people get anxious when facing stressful situations threatening, but severe and chronic anxiety in the absence of clear cause, is uncommon. studies show that anxiety in men and a young person are less privileged economic classes and in women, low-income people and the elderly and children and teenagers are more common. when locat...

the current study was aimed to examine the relationship between alexithymia and social anxiety among schizophrenic inpatients. the study was of descriptive and predictive nature. sixty inpatients with dsm-v schizophrenia were recruited from niayesh psychiatric hospital in 2015 in tehran, iran. they were interviewed with the anxiety disorders section of the scid for dsm-iv. the structured clinic...