Methods Setting: outpatient tertiary referral clinics. Participants: consecutive patients from start of the database to 31/12/2010. Inclusion criteria: IS; Risser 0-2; 11° to 20° Cobb; age 10 years or more; first evaluation. Exclusion criteria: consultations only; immediate prescription of a brace. Groups: Physiotherapic Specific Scoliosis Exercises SEAS school (PSSE: at least 45 min/week, 3 co...

87-0792/$ see front matter Q 200 i:10.1016/j.smrv.2005.06.001 Abbreviations DSM-IV-TR, Diagnos r Mental Disorders, edition IV, tex hearsal Therapy; LDT, Lucid Dreami pid Eye Movement; PTSD, Posttraum pid Eye Movement. * Corresponding author. Tel.: C31 3 3 4718. E-mail address: v.i.spoormaker@fs Summary The DSM-IV-TR definition of nightmares—extremely frightening dreams from which the person wak...

Mindfulness is described as an experiential state and an intentional practice aimed at enhancing attention to and acceptance of the broad range of human experience. The use of figurative language occupies a central role in the psychotherapy process. This article introduces a new analogy, not currently represented in the literature, with therapeutic utility across age groups for enhancing unders...

Davis (2001) developed a cognitive-behavioral model of pathological Internet use (PIU) in which the availability, and awareness of the Internet, psychopathologies such as depression, social anxiety or substance abuse, and situational cues providing reinforcement of Internet usage behaviors, interact to produce maladaptive cognitions(Charlton & Danforth, 2007). This model posits that user's cogn...

5 Between groups design In a between groups design, the effect of the independent variable on the dependent variable is based upon the examination of group differences. In a true experimental design, one group receives a treatment or intervention (known as the treatment group), and the comparison group typically experiences no treatment (the control group). 6 Between groups design However, s...

This article addresses early intervention in Acute Stress Disorder (ASD) affecting children victims of terror and their parents, in an attempt to ease the reactive distress and prevent development of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The latter disorder is chronic, associated with disability on numerous levels of functioning, and is highly prevalent among trauma victims, especially children...

Since the late 1980s there has been tremendous progress in the nonpharmacological treatment of anxiety disorders. Cognitive-behavioral therapies, which reflect a recent integration of the cognitive theories and methods associated with Aaron Beck, Albert Ellis, and David Clark, and the behavioral theories and methods of B.F. Skinner and Ivan Pavlov, currently have the greatest degree of empirica...

conclusions the results of this study show that narrative therapy is a suitable approach for solving couples’ conflicts. background conflict among couples is one of the most important issues in the family and often causes wives to refer for therapy. one of the most important therapeutic approaches is narrative therapy, the efficacy of which is investigated in this paper. objectives the aim of t...

background treatment for psychological disorders is generally based on signs and symptoms, and research in this area has shown that major depression has become one of the most significant psychiatric disorders of the last decade. objectives this study was conducted to compare the effects of schema therapy and cognitive group therapy on women with depression who were engaging in high-risk sexual...

occupational therapy in iran is relatively young-established in 1971-with a fluctuated development due to the iranian revolution in 1979, and eight years war from 1981 to 1989. today, there are ten bachelor programs across the country approved by world federation of occupational therapists (wfot). furthermore, occupational therapists have opportunities for further postgraduate training in both ...