Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the validity, reliability and factor structure of the child and parent's version of psychological inflexibility in pain scale (PIPS) in the population of children with chronic pain and their parents. Methods: The sample consisted of 112 pairs of children and parents, selected through available sampling method from the Tehran Children's Hospi...

Increasing rates of adolescent admissions to inpatient psychiatric settings and acute length of stay necessitates valid psychiatric screening tools. The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) appears to have valuable clinical application due to its brevity and strong psychometric properties. In this study we aimed to evaluate the criterion validity of the SDQ in 159 psychiatric inpatien...

OBJECTIVE To examine rates of behavioural and substance use problems in incarcerated young offenders and to explore rural and urban differences in the expression and severity of these problems. METHOD We assessed a sample of 68 confined male young offenders (63.3% rural and 35.3% urban), using the Drug Use Screening Inventory (DUSI) and the Youth Self-Report (YSR). RESULTS Based on clinical...

Materiali e metodi Sono stati arruolati un gruppo di 47 ragazze affette da sindrome di Turner e un gruppo di 47 ragazze sane di età compresa fra i 10 e i 19 anni. Al fine di valutare gli aspetti emotivi e sociorelazionali delle ragazze affette da Turner confrontate con quelle sane, è stata condotta un’intervista semistrutturata per raccogliere dati personali e familiari, relativi ad abitudini p...

OBJECTIVE Peer relationships are one of the important factors in children's development. The present study examines the relationship between the effects of early peer relationships and adolescent psychological adjustment. METHODS The first survey took place from 1998 to 2000, and a follow-up assessment obtained data in 2006, as the original participants reached 13-15 years of age. The first a...

The following is a case report of a 15-year-old adolescent who was evaluated and treated via telepsychiatry as part of an ongoing project at the University of Michigan Health System and the Hiawatha Community Mental Health Center in Michigan. In addition to clinical information, prospective quantitative data was collected at baseline, 6 weeks, and 3 months. Measures included the Youth Self Repo...

The current study is a pilot trial to examine the effects of a nonelective, classroom-based, teacher-implemented, mindfulness meditation intervention on standard clinical measures of mental health and affect in middle school children. A total of 101 healthy sixth-grade students (55 boys, 46 girls) were randomized to either an Asian history course with daily mindfulness meditation practice (inte...

the present study examines the effect of conversation based on philosophical stories in the community of inquiry on the reduction of the signs of anxiety disorders in the children between 11 and 12 of tehran. this semi-empirical study was conducted in terms of test and control groups. the participants of the study consisted of all fifth and sixth grade students of public schools of tehran (n=50...