Introduction: Although humor plays an important role in improving people’s mental and physical health, empirical studies on the effectiveness of humor skills training to improve the symptoms of the patients with schizophrenia are scarce. Objective: This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of humor skills training on positive and negative symptoms in male patients with chronic schizophre...

the purpose of the research is to examine if integrating cooperative learning into vocabulary learning helps to increase word recognition of students in an elementary school in iran. it tries to investigate whether cooperative learning approach enables students to improve their language learning. this research used stad (students team achievement division) as a cooperative model in this study. ...

the purpose of this thesis was to investigate how differently metacognitive, cognitive, and social/affective strategies affect l2 learners’ reading comprehension. to this end, the study employed a quasi-experimental design with a placement test as a proficiency test to find the homogeneity of groups. three classes were randomly selected as the experimental groups (n =90), and each class was tau...

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment group therapy in the social anxiety of adolescent orphan girls.  Methods: The research method was semi-experimental with a pretest-posttest design and unequal control. The statistical population of the study was all ten to twenty-year-old orphan and foster adolescent girls in the two center...

Introduction: The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of self-healing training on self-compassion, self-esteem, and aggression in poorly supervised teen girls. Method: The research method was quasi-experimental with a pretest-posttest-follow-up design with a control group. The research population included poorly supervised teen girls in Isfahan that were for sake of this res...

The Purpose of the present research was to examine the effectiveness of communication skills training on aggression in children with ADHD. The study population consisted of all children 9 to 12 years with ADHD from Omid Asr Rehabilitationat 2014.  Sampling method was purposeful and 24 children with ADHD that have aggression selected (12 children experimental group and 12 control group). Th...