the aim of this review article is describing a research on spiritual and religious interventions in iran. an integrative review was conducted to determine the state of the science in iran. iranmedex, scientific information database, irandoc, noormags, magiran and google scholar were searched to find articles published in peer-reviewed journals from august 2002 to august 2012. a qualitative appr...

results in the current study, no statistically significant differences were found between the study groups in demographic variables (p > 0.05). analysis of covariance revealed significant differences between the study groups in all the 3 variables in posttest compared to the pretest. the mean scores of depression, anxiety, and stress in the micbt group were significantly lower than the control ...

objectives: this study intended to examine the effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on moderating maladaptive schemas and affective control in students suffering from learning disabilities. methods: this experimental research was conducted using pretest-posttest and a control group. the population included all the female students who  were studying in the koohdasht's middle...

aim and background: there are various methods for treatment of depression. this study was aimed to examine and compare the efficacy of three therapeutic techniques namely group cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy, drug therapy with fluoxetin and drug- therapy with the herbal medicine named hypiran in treatment of depression in women. method and materials: in an experimental study, a total number...

abstract: aim and background: autism spectrum disorder is a complex childhood neurological disorder that affects all aspects of child development. the purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of an intervention program using animals to improve cognitive, social, behavioral functioning , and communication in children with autism spectrum disorders. methods and materials: 14 child...

generalized anxiety disorder is one of the psychological disorders in childhood that is usually neglected. the purpose of this research was to determine the efficacy of cognitive behavioral group therapy on anxiety and worry of children with generalized anxiety disorder. in this semi-experimental study, 38 children were identified among female students in third grade who responded to the screen...

objectives the objective of this study was to assess the effects of cognitive-behavioral training on increasing self-concept and the attitude style toward narcotic drugs. background the existing studies have indicated that persons with positive attitude and believe to narcotics have more addiction than those with negative or natural attitudes. the aim of the present study was to specify the eff...

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of play therapy combined with a traumatic cognitive-behavioral approach on the symptoms of trauma and the feeling of loneliness of the victims of sexual abuse. Methods: This research was a quasi-experimental study with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. The statistical population comprised all sexually-abused Afghan girls...

Background: Any chronic illness puts a person and family at risk of long term suffering, financial depletion and burden on the caregiver. When it comes to chronic kidney disease (CKD), the sufferers have to be dependent on maintenance dialysis weekly twice or thrice that demands a lot of time and finances. Apart from that, they face physical symptoms of fatigue, anaemia, nausea, muscle cramps, ...