PURPOSE AND METHODS Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) constitutes the basis of smoking cessation programs. Quitting rates are usually increased by the concomitant use of CBT and pharmacotherapy. There are studies showing the efficacy of bupropion and nortriptyline compared to placebo, but there is just one published comparison between these drugs, unfortunately with low power to detect significa...

1092-5171/02/2901-0068 ABSTRACT: Counseling older clients and their caregivers poses some unique challenges for speech-language pathologists and audiologists. This article provides basic guidelines for improving counseling exchanges with older adults. Clinicians are asked to consider the effects of physical and cognitive aging, social and economic influences, and clinician behaviors, experience...

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...

in this investigation, the effect of group cognitive-behavior therapy in reduction of anxiety and dysfunctional attitude were studied on patients with generalized anxiety disorder (gad). 20 female participants were recognized to have gad by the researcher through a clinical interview on the basis of dsm-iv-tr standards and invited to take part in the study. they first filled in the dysfunctiona...

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...

objective: aim of this experimental study is evaluating the effectiveness of two different approaches towards the treatment of major depressive disorder (mdd): positive-oriented psychotherapy and group cognitive-behavior therapy. methods: eighteen out-patients suffering from major depression were randomly divided into two groups to be treated according to either of these two approaches. both gr...

objectives:this study used a quasi-experimental method inthe pretest-posttest to evaluate the efficacy of cognitive-existential group therapy on hopefulness in parents of children with cancer. methods:thirty parents (24 to 54 years old) of children with cancer were divided randomly into experimental and control groups. both groups were assessed with miller hope scale (1988), as pre-test. the ex...