objective: this study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of education based of the cognitive, metacognitive, and behavioral model on the reduction of meta-worry beliefs in patients with social anxiety disorder (sad). methods: the research was a quasi-experimental study with pretest-posttest design and a control group. the statistical population comprised all patients with sad referr...

objective: this research investigates and compares the effects of short-term cognitive behavioral therapy (cbt) and mindfulness based cognitive therapy (mbct) over psychological problems of the patients with binge eating disorder (bed). methods: among patients of sina hospital and other weight loss centers of tehran, 44 people were selected and allocated randomly in cbt (14), mbct (14) and cont...

abstract background: level of stress and its management affects the dimensions of psychosomatic patients’ quality of life (qol), which is an important psychological issue. the present study aimed to investigate the effect of cognitive behavioral stress management program on psychosomatic patients’ qol. in cognitive behavioral method, patients discover thought and behavioral mistakes and recover...

chronic diseases have been identified as predisposing factors in behavioral disorders and the prevalence of these disorders is known to be higher in patients than in control groups. thalassemia too, plays an effective role in increasing the prevalence of behavioral disorders. in order to recognize the prevalence of behavioral disorders in thalassemic patients, a study was performed on 257 patie...

abstract: aim and background: autism spectrum disorder is a complex childhood neurological disorder that affects all aspects of child development. the purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of an intervention program using animals to improve cognitive, social, behavioral functioning , and communication in children with autism spectrum disorders. methods and materials: 14 child...