Introduction: Children with cancer, along with medical treatments, need psychological treatments to overcome their illness and its consequences. The aim of this study was to determine the effects of cognitive-behavioral art-play therapy and cognitive-behavioral story therapy on pain perception and hope in children with cancer. Methods: The current study was quasi-experimental research with pre-...

Introduction & Objective: Since pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy of depression are symptomatic treatments, in this study we used 3 methods of drug therapy, group cognitive therapy and desensitization by reprocessing eye movements to compare the efficacy of the mentioned treatments in reducing depression in the Iranian veterans. Materials & Methods: In this quasi-experimental study, 60 veteran...

AbstractObjectives: The present study was carried out to examine the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral group therapy with Heimberg’s model on Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) Symptoms Reduction among female students. Method: Social Phobia Inventory (SPI) was administrated to 205 female students of Shahed University and 24 individuals were selected using structured clinical interview for social...

Background: Generally, patients with type 2 diabetes experience low level of psychological well-being, which may exacerbate their symptoms .Accordingly, the purpose of this study is the effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and emotion-oriented therapy on psychological well-being on type 2 diabetic patients. Methods: This experimental study was of the post-test, pre-test and fol...

Introduction: Anxiety and depression are among the variables that children with cancer need psychological treatment for them. The aim of this study was to determine the comparing the effectiveness of group story therapy and the art-play therapy on anxiety and depression in children with cancer based on the framework, principles and rules of cognitive-behavioral approach. Methods: The research m...

abstract lexical knowledge of complex english words is an important part of language skills and crucial for fluent language use (nation, 2001). the present study, thus, was an attempt to assess the role of morphological decomposition awareness as a vocabulary learning strategy on learners’ productive and receptive recall and recognition of complex english words. so 90 sophomores (female and ma...

Introduction: This study was aimed to compare of the effectiveness of group cognitive-behavioral therapy and methadone maintenance therapy on changing beliefs toward substance abuse among addicted people. Method: The research method was a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest with witness group. 30 addicted people who were referred to the addiction treatment centers selected by available sampling...

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of solution-based therapy on cognitive self-control and mental well-being in mistreated women with addiction readiness. Method: The research method was quasi-experimental with pretest-posttest design with a control group. The statistical population of the present study included all mistreated women referred to the Welfare Cente...