objectives : the behavioral-cognitive framework offers methods for stress assessment and its relevant coping strategies. the present study was designed to investigate stress management pattern of substance abusers. the results may be used for effective cognitive-behavioral interventions for these patients. method: one hundred substance abusers who sought treatment at addiction rehabilitation de...

brain stimulation techniques are important in both basic and clinical studies. majority of well-known brain stimulating techniques have low spatial resolution or entail invasive processes. low intensity focused ultrasound (lifu) seems to be a proper candidate for dealing with such deficiencies. this review recapitulates studies which explored the effects of lifu on brain structures and its func...

this study compared focus attention (self-focused attention and other focused attention) in social phobia patients and normal subjects. in this study with causal–comparative method, 100 subjects with social phobia and 100 normal individuals have been compared. subjects were selected through cluster sampling among tabriz university students. data scale of social phobia and focus attention of the...

black stem is one of the most important fungal diseases of sunflower which is caused by phoma macdonaldii. this research was conducted to clarify the interactions between a few breeder lines and wild-type accessions of sunflower with seven isolates of phoma macdonaldii, the causal agent, under controlled conditions. the experiment was carried out in randomized complete block design with three r...

To improve cognitive and behavioral therapies (CBT) for depression, several approaches recommend an increased focus on the occurrence of problems as they occur in the therapeutic relationship or in relation to the live therapy process, referred to as present-focused. A lingering question has been the degree to which CBT therapists already engage in present-focused work. This study utilized sess...

Low-income children perform better in school when school-focused future identities are a salient aspect of their possible self for the coming year and these school-focused future identities are linked to behavioral strategies (Oyserman et al., 2006). Hierarchical linear modeling of data from a four-state low-income neighborhood sample of eighth-graders suggests two central consequences of famil...

this current research is a quasi experimental design which is aimed to study the effectiveness of two couple therapies, cognitive behavioral couple therapy (cbct) and emotional focused couple therapy (eft), on depression and some other variables in infertile male factor pairs. the sample includes 30 infertile volunteer pairs from kosar infertility clinic which are placed in an experimental and ...

Cohen et al. / COGNITIVE BEH VIORAL THERAPY This article reviews the four major components of trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for children and adolescents: exposure, cognitive processing and reframing, stress management, and parental treatment. For each component, background, description, and the current empirical support for including each of these components in the treatment...