Body-image disturbances and body-image misperceptions are common phenomena in the adult obese or disordered eating population, but they have received scant notice in group psychotherapy literature. This paper integrates an important missing conceptual link of body-image development and offers a group psychotherapy treatment model. This paper does not address the eating disorders, i.e., bulimia ...

Background: The medical staff working on the front-line battle against coronavirus (COVID-19) are more exposed to mental health risks than others. Resilience is the ability to withstand challenging situations that help individuals defend their mental health against stressors. Therefore, the present study aimed to compare the effectiveness of Yalom and acceptance and commitment group psychothera...

There have been several arguments for the need to generate evidence-based creative forms of psychological interventions in Improving Access Psychological Services (IAPT), main primary mental health provider hospitals England, UK. In this feasibility study, we sought identify helpful and unhelpful factors a new group psychotherapy, titled Arts Blues. We also wanted find out whether research tool...

Background: Research findings suggest that attitudes towards psychotherapy predict willingness to seek therapy. However, understanding how medical students think about using and referring their patients for psychotherapy is limited. Aims: The aims of this study are to measure medical students' attitudes towards professional help seeking, and to investigate the reasons for whether or not they wo...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of group psychotherapy with transactional analysis (TA) approach on emotional intelligence (EI), executive functions and substance dependency among drug-addicts at rehabilitation centers in Mashhad city, Iran, in 2013. PATIENTS AND METHODS In this quasi-experimental study with pretest, posttest, case- control stages, 30 patien...

conclusions expressive emotion brief psychotherapy that focuses on the instructions of expression about one’s living and dealing with a diagnosis of chronic medical condition is recommended for kidney transplant recipients. results baseline demographic characters of patients in both groups were similar. the mean age of patients that participated in the study were respectively 39.26 ± 12.98 and ...