background: clinical researches indicate the increase of stress in the society and the number of patients with psychological disorders, especially depression. this study was performed to assess the effectiveness of an educational intervention based on cognitive-behavioral methods on stress and depression among women with depressive disorder. methods: forty patients with depressive disorder who ...

objectives: this present study aims to examine the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral-based stress management training on anxiety in female ms patients. methods: this study employed a semi-experimental research method with pre-test post-test, control group and random assignment. the statistical population fully consisted of female ms patients referred to the iran ms association in 2014, from...

objectives: present study is designed to investigate the effect of stress management training by using cognitive behavioral method on stress of mothers of children with oppositional defiant disorder. methods: the study was done in a quasi-experiment designed as pre-post-test with control group. the participants were 20 mothers of oppositional defiant disorder children, ages from 4 to7 years old...

This article reviews the development of institutional theory in direct relations to historical changes within the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) with an eye to contributing to the theoretical specification of healthcare information processes. This is done partly by extending certain paradigms (see Meyer & Rowan, 1991; Powell & DiMaggio, 1991; Tolbert & Zucker, 1994) through a proposed model...

The field of behavioral genetics has engendered a host of moral and social concerns virtually since its inception. The policy implications of a genetic basis for behaviors are widespread and extend beyond the clinic to the socially important realms of education, criminal justice, childbearing, and child rearing. The development of new techniques and analytic approaches, including whole-genome s...

objective: this research was conducted to investigate the relationship between behavioral activation-inhibition systems and bullyingvictimization behaviors among adolescents. method: this was a correlational and cross-sectional study. two hundred and thirty school boys were selected randomly by multistage cluster sampling method, and participated in this research. this sample responded to a dem...

objective: to compare the effectiveness of bibliotherapy and cognitive behavioral therapy on depression of students with emotional breakdown. method: this is a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest against a control group. the population includes all referred students to kharazmi university counselling center; 20 samples were selected using a convenience sampling method.  findings: the results co...

purpose: the present study was to investigating the role of theory of mind and empathy in predicting behavioral-emotional problems in students from typical and divorce families that done the cause-comparison and correlation method. methodology: the subjects were 293 of the girl students of fifth and sixth grades which were selected by multi-stage cluttering sampling method. the tools are three ...