UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Development of interventions that address psychosocial and existential distress in people with motor neurone disease (MND) or that alleviate caregiver burden in MND family carers have often been suggested in the research literature. Dignity therapy, which was developed to reduce psychosocial and existential distress at the end of life, has been shown to benefit people d...

Existential Psychological Theory was employed as a conceptual and theoretical foundation for the use of hypnotically facilitated therapy in the management of intractable pain, nausea, and vomiting in 3 end-stage, terminally ill cancer patients. The existential principles of death anxiety, existential isolation, and existential meaninglessness were addressed with a combination of classic and Eri...

OBJECTIVE To review the evidence on the efficacy of different types of existential therapies: a family of psychological interventions that draw on themes from existential philosophy to help clients address such issues in their lives as meaning and death anxiety. METHOD Relevant electronic databases, journals, and reference lists were searched for eligible studies. Effects on meaning, psychopa...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of emotional regulation training group therapy, based on dialectical behavioral therapy (dbt) and cognitive therapy, on improving emotional regulation and distress tolerance skills and relapse prevention in addicts.in a quasiexperimental study, 39 patients with the diagnosis of opioid dependence based on dsm-iv criteria were randoml...

objective: this study investigated the effectiveness of mindfulness-based group therapy (mbgt) compared to the usual opioid dependence treatment (tau).thirty outpatients meeting the dsm-iv-tr criteria for opioid dependence from iranian national center for addiction studies (incas) were randomly assigned into experimental (mindfulness-based group therapy) and control groups (the usual treatment)...

OBJECTIVE The aim was to explore how mindfulness group therapy for somatoform disorders influenced the patients' stress experiences, coping strategies and contextual psychosocial processes. METHODS A longitudinal pre- and post-treatment design, using 22 semi-structured individual pre- and post-treatment interviews. Data-analysis was based on a thematic methodology. RESULTS Pre-treatment pat...

It is shown that the existential theory of G with rational constraints, over an HNN-extension G = 〈H, t; tat = φ(a)(a ∈ A)〉 is decidable, provided that the same problem is decidable in the base group H and that A is a finite group. The positive theory of G is decidable, provided that the existential positive theory of G is decidable and that A and φ(A) are proper subgroups of the base group H w...

aim and background: child social phobia is a common anxiety disorder that there is different intervention psychology treatment for it. the main purpose of this research was to determine the effect of cognitive-behavior group play therapy on social phobia in 5-11 years old children. methods and materials: in this research of quasi experimental, from among of the children who were referred to chi...