Introduction: Children with functional abdominal pain often suffer from Abdominal pain before falling asleep. This study aimed to determine the effects of resiliency based play therapy and cognitive-behavioral play therapy on sleep disorder in children with functional abdominal pain. Methods: The research method was quasi-experimental, with pre-test, post-test, and follow-up with a control gro...

Background and purpose: Today, cognitive-behavioral group therapy is empirically supported in treatment of emotional disorders and in some ​​chronic diseases such as diabetes. The aim of the present research was to study the effect of cognitive-behavioral group therapy on glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c), self-efficacy, depression, illness perception, and quality of life in patients with type II...

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy involves, components of Beck cognitive therapy and mindfulness-based stress reduction therapy provided by Kabat-Zinn and in a therapy group to work with persons with a history of depression and thus vulnerable period later developed.This training of people to broaden their perspective to see maladaptive thoughts, ruminations thought processes and cognitive im...

abstract the present study was an attempt to investigate the effect of critical thinking on writing ability of 60 iranian intermediate efl learners studying at chenar language institute in khuzestan, iran. to this end, the participants of the study were selected based on their performance in an pet test, a cornell critical thinking test form x and a pre-test of writing. the participants un...

the purpose of the present study was to see which one of the two instruction-processing instruction (pi) and meaningful output based instruction (mobi) accompanied with prompt and recast- is more effective on efl learners’ writing accuracy. in order to homogenize the participants in term of language proficiency a preliminary english test (pet) was administrated between 74 intermediate students ...

Purpose: This study compared the effectiveness of group cognitive-behavioral therapy based on coping skills (CBT) and methadone maintenance therapy (MMT) in improvement of emotional regulation strategies and prevention of relapse. Method: The method of the present study was semi-experimental research design (pre-test-post-test with witness group). For sampling 45 substance abuse people who had ...

Background & Aims: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is one of the most common neurological diseases in humans and the most disabling disease of young adults. The present paper aims at investigating the effect of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) on depression, quality of life, and anxiety in MS patients. Materials & Methods:  The method of the study included pretest-posttest contro...