Introdution: The aim of the present study was to investigate the efficacy of cognitive-behavioral therapy and hope therapy on quality of life, life expectancy, resiliency in patients with thalassemia who went to Bushehr Thalassemia Therapy Center in 2017. Methods: The study was experimental and census was used. It consisted of 21 patients with thalassemia in Bushehr province who were randomly ...

Abstract Background & Aim: Anxiety plays an important and sensitive role in nurses. Mindfulness-based therapy is the third generation of anxiety disorders treatments that attracted many practitioners attention. The aim of present research was to examine the effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on cognitive failure and emotional processing in the anxious nurses. Materials &...

Background and purpose : Social phobia is the third current disorder in psychiatry, that causes functional deficiency in patients and leads to high economic losses in families and society. Social phobia can be managed by different durg and non-durg treatment, one of them probably is cognitive therapy. The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of congnitive therapy on the social pho...

Introduction: Hyperactivity of children can cause problems for couples and threaten their mental health. The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of emotionally focused-meta cognitive couple therapy and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on psychological capital among couples with hyperactive children. Methods: The research method was semi-experimental, and research design was...

Objective: The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of group cognitive-behavioral therapy and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy in reducing craving among opiate addicts. Method: A quasi-experimental research design along with pre-test/post-test and control group was employed for the conduct of this study. The statistical population of this study included the opiate dependent ind...

Introduction & Objective: Since pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy of depression are symptomatic treatments, in this study we used 3 methods of drug therapy, group cognitive therapy and desensitization by reprocessing eye movements to compare the efficacy of the mentioned treatments in reducing depression in the Iranian veterans. Materials & Methods: In this quasi-experimental study, 60 veteran...

Introduction: Sexual dysfunction is often associated with affect imbalance and inefficient expectations. The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of emotionally focused couple’s therapy, cognitive-behavioral couple’s therapy and Gottman systemic-cognitive couple’s therapy on affect balance and marriage expectations of woman with sexual dysfunction. Methods: This research was a sem...