objective: standards of care and treatment of premenstrual syndrome (pms) vary. non-drug ‎psychosocial intervention therapy is recommended for women with any kind of ‎discomfort or distress caused by pms. the current study examined the effectiveness of ‎group cognitive-behavioral therapy on the symptoms of pms at a girls’ dormitory of ‎north khorasan university of medical sciences. method: in t...

background: post traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) in war veterans has been linked with symptoms in their children, including symptoms resembling those of the traumatized parents, especially aggression. this study aims to examine the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral group therapy in reducing aggressive behaviors of male adolescents whose fathers have war related ptsd. method: 36 male childr...

abstract background: hope is the most important factor in diabetic patients’ life. the level of hope may be changing among these individuals as a result of chronic nature of diabetes and its complications. when the level of hope increases among these patients, they can resist against physical and psychological complications of diabetes more, accept the treatment better, enjoy life more, and ada...

the cognitive behavioral interventions based on the transdiagnostic approach for emotional disorders have received useful empirical supports in recent years. most of the researches on this area have been conducted without any control group. moreover, little information about comparative effectiveness has reported. the current study was compared transdiagnostic group therapy with classical cogni...

BACKGROUND Existential behavioural therapy (EBT) was developed to support informal caregivers of palliative patients in the last stage of life and during bereavement as a manualised group psychotherapy comprising six sessions. We tested the effectiveness of EBT on mental stress and quality of life (QOL). METHODS Informal caregivers were randomly assigned (1:1) to EBT or a treatment-as-usual c...

In spite of extreme childhood sexual and violent abuse, a 22-year-old young woman, Anna, healed during holistic existential therapy. New and highly confrontational therapeutic tools were developed and used to help this patient (like acceptance through touch and acupressure through the vagina). Her vulva and introitus were scarred from repeated brutal rape, as was the interior of her mouth. Duri...

objectives: some of the mothers of children with cancer suffer from reactive depression and confront existential crises, and benefit from their image of god in coping with it. the purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of spiritually-oriented cognitive therapy on reducing depression symptoms in mothers of children with cancer. methods: a single case experimental design and an ...

background lack of control on irritation among prisoners afflicted with ptsd is a common symptom. objectives this research studied the effectiveness of a therapy group with a cognitive behavioral approach to decrease aggressiveness. materials and methods this research was semi-empirical and the research plan was pre-test/post-test with a control group. the statistical community of this research...

ôbjective: ône of non-confrontative methods for treatment of difficult issues such as grief is movie therapy which is an advanced form of bibliotherapy. the present study aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of group movie therapy (gmt) on reduction of intensity of grief experience in bereaved adolescent girls. methods: this was a quasi-experimental design with pretest-posttest and a follow up...