objective: the present study aimed to investigate the effects of group positive psychotherapy on increasing the happiness of mothers of children with cochlear implants.  methods: this study was a quasi-experimental research with pretest-posttest, a control group, and a 75-day follow-up design. a total of 20 mothers of children with cochlear implants treated in baqiyatallah hospital of tehran ci...

Psychodynamic concepts about borderline personality disorder are reviewed and the literature concerning psychotherapeutic treatment of this group is examined. The treatment contexts considered include: psychoanalysis and intensive (expressive) psychoanalytic psychotherapy, supportive psychotherapy, group psychotherapy, family therapy, in-patient treatment, the therapeutic community, cognitive-b...

Providing computational support to group meetings is a challenge some applications are now addressing. Nonetheless, there are specific areas which need special attention by developers to cover all inherent issues, which can reveal themselves as workflow, interface or context requirements, among other. In the group psychotherapy field of study it is necessary to be careful with both the therapis...

Understanding mechanisms of action in group psychotherapy. Seasoned group therapists recognize that the success of individual group members is intimately linked to the overall health of the group-as-a-whole. Indeed, a sizable portion of the clinical and empirical literature delineates therapeutic factors and mechanisms that have been linked with healthy well-functioning therapy groups. Mechanis...

In the course of group analytic psychotherapy, where we discovered the power of the therapeutic effects, there occurred the need of group analytic psychotherapy researches. Psychotherapeutic work in general, and group psychotherapy in particular, are hard to measure and put into some objective frames. Researches, i. e. measuring of changes in psychotherapy is a complex task, and there are large...

ment " make fascinating reading. The author expressly disclaims that his method is meant to supersede orthodox psychoanalysis: it is rather a complementary approach which touches upon the patient's adjustment to social realities in a way which the privacy of the individual analytic procedure inevitably misses. The method employs, in a group setting, the same " tools "? free association, underst...

The Royal College of Psychiatrists classifies group psychotherapy as required experience for psychotherapy training as part of general psy chiatric training (Grant et al, 1993). This is defined as group experience in in-patient and/ or out-patient settings, with an experienced cotherapist and/or supervision. Previous surveys estimate that the percentage of trainees gaining such experience range...

purpose: to examine the effectiveness of group cognitive-behavioral therapy (cbt) based on schema on impulsiveness of substance abusers in karaj. materials and methods: this study was quasi-experimental with pre-test, post-test and control group. the statistical population of this study consisted of male substance abusers who referred to addiction treatment clinics of karaj in 2010. the sample ...