Current research has been done to investigate the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral game therapy in a group style on reducing hidden and visible anxiety in 4 to 12-year-old girls who are bad-supervised and inhabiting in quasi family centers in Tehran province. The current research method is a kind of semi-pilot plan with pre-exam and post-exam ideas with a control group, which is of that ki...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of behavioral activation therapy on coping  strategies  in students with general anxiety disorder. The research method was semi-experimental with pretest-posttest with the control group. A total of 30 undergraduate and undergraduate female students from Khorramabad University were selected based on criteria of the research and randomly ass...

Introduction: Considering the negative effects of depressive symptoms and anxiety on the course of schizophrenia, it seems that the combination of cognitive-behavioral group therapy with self-care skills can increase the effectiveness of this treatment in reducing the distress of patients with chronic schizophrenia. Therefore, a study was designed and conducted to determine the effect of cognit...

Emotion Focused Couple Therapy and Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy are treatments that has a focused on the negative cycles of interaction caused from deep emotional vulnerability. The current research administrated aim to Comparison of the Effectiveness of Integrative Approaches, Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy and Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy In Restructuring Communication...

Background and purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of family-based cognitive behavioral therapy in modification of self-image associated with obesity in children. Materials and methods: A randomized controlled trial was performed in children with obesity (BMI ≥ 95th percentile (aged 8-15 years old. Using convenience sampling, the participants were recruited fr...

Objective: The present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy in pain self-efficacy, fatigue, life expectancy and depression in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). Methods: In a semi-experimental research with a control group pretest-posttest design, 68 patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) were selected through convenience sampling from neurolo...

Background and purpose: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by difficulty in social functioning, communication, and the presence of stereotypic and repetitive behaviors. Due to various problems of these children, their families, especially their mothers experience extreme stress. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy on mental health ...

Abstract Introduction: Students with anxiety symptoms are faced with various physical and psychological stressful factors which ‎leads to decreasing quality of life. Considering the relationship between behavioral activation/ inhibition systems and cognitive emotion regulation with early maladaptive schemas, one of the methods capable of assisting the students with anxiety symptoms is schema t...

Background: Cognitive behavioral therapy has provided the most empirical evidence concerning the treatment of mood disorders, especially depression. However, the findings have not confirmed the definitive efficacy of this treatment so far. Objectives: This study aimed to compare the effectiveness of adolescent-centered mindfulness training with cognitive behavioral therapy on depression and su...

Introduction: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of Cognitive-behavioral therapy based on Beck’s pattern on clinical syndrome and life satisfaction in patients with major depression Methods: This randomized clinical trial was performed on 24 patients with depression. Patients were randomly assigned into two groups of cognitive-behavioral therapy and control. Cognitive-behav...