Aim: The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on cognitive components (fusion, avoidance and cognitive flexibility) and oxidative stress in women with type-2 diabetes. Methods: The research method was quasi-experimental with pre-test/post-test design and control group on 60 female patients with type-2 diabetes...

Background and aim: The purpose of this study is to compare the effectiveness of group therapy based on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) on experiential avoidance and cognitive fusion in patients with migraine headache.  Method: This research was an experimental research type. The subjects included 30 patients with migraine headache who were assigned...

the purpose of this study was to examine the comparative effect of story retelling and role playing on efl learners’ vocabulary learning and reading comprehension. to carry out the purpose of the study 90 female learners of tabarestan language school located in noshahr were non-randomly selected. they took pet test and among these 90 participants 62 students were selected as homogenous learners...

the methods which are used to analyze microstrip antennas, are divited into three categories: empirical methods, semi-empirical methods and full-wave analysis. empirical and semi-empirical methods are generally based on some fundamental simplifying assumptions about quality of surface current distribution and substrate thickness. thses simplificatioms cause low accuracy in field evaluation. ful...

abstract the aim of the present study is to explore the impact of the cognitive reading strategy instruction on learners reading self-efficacy and their reading achievement. in order to fulfill this purpose, from 120 participants, 90 intermediate efl learners as an experimental group were chosen from three different educational settings namely, yazd university, yazd science and art un...

Introduction: Single-parent children are among the children who need serious attention from the therapeutic and training community. The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral art-play therapy and play therapy based on child-parent relationships on the quality of child-parent interactions among single parents’ children. Methods: The research method was two s...

Three waves of behavior therapy with different objectives and methods have been published that in the formation of each of them, several factors have had impact. This study look at these factors and attention the current challenges of the third wave of behavioral therapy, points to the emergence of a fourth wave of behavioral therapy. Including the challenges of the third wave behavioral therap...

Introduction: Mothers of single-parent children need a lot of help and assistance because they are alone in playing parenting roles. This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of play therapy based on child-parent relationships and cognitive-behavioral art-play therapy on single-parent mothers’ affective capital and their components. Methods: The research method was quasi-experimental with...

Background: The purpose of this study was to evaluate effectiveness of virtual reality therapy and mindfulness-acceptance therapy on attention focus and social anxiety symptoms among social anxiety patients who referred to counseling centers of Tehran City. Materials and methods: This semi-experimental study with pretest-posttest design was done on social anxiety patients. The sample consisted ...