aim and background: recently, “third wave” behavioral and cognitive interventions have received extensive attention between researchers.to evaluation of the efficacy of one of these treatments, acceptance and commitment therapy (act), this study compares this treatment with cognitive - behavioral therapy (cbt) in obsessive- compulsive disorder (ocd).   methods and materials: in this study a qua...

The present study includes 50 patients suffering from psychological stress disorders like thyrotoxicosis and anxiety neurosis. Biochemical estimation of melatonin was done in all these cases prior to treatment and 3 months after appropriate treatment. A significant increase in the level of melatonin was observed in thyrotoxic and anxiety neurotic cases. In all these cases, after therapy the lev...

abstract the aim of this study is to investigate effectiveness of interaction between stress inoculation training and identity styles on psychological well-being and perceived stress. participates were selected through the simple random samplings procedure. sixty seven clients were divided by random assignment into two groups on the basis of their identity style (normative, diffuse/avoidant). t...

BACKGROUND Psychological interventions for infertile patients seek to improve mental health and increase pregnancy rates. The aim of the present meta-analysis was to examine if psychological interventions improve mental health and pregnancy rate among infertile patients. Thus, controlled studies were pooled investigating psychological interventions following the introduction of assisted reprodu...

Hidradenitis suppurativa is a chronic, recurrent, debilitating disease that presents with painful, inflamed lesions in the apocrine-gland-bearing areas of the body, most commonly the axillary, inguinal, and anogenital areas. Etiology traditionally has been attributed to occlusion of the apocrine duct by a keratinous plug; however, defects of the follicular epithelium also have been noted. Contr...