Journal of clinical psychology and counseling research
Year:2018 | Volume:7 | Issue:2 |Papers Count:10

Purpose: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between Learned Helplessness (LH) and the academic achievement with the Mediating of test anxiety and academic procrastination. Method: The population of the study consisted of all second grade female high school students in Mashhad in the academic year of 2012-2013. The sample was composed of 394 students. The sampling procedure was done based on the multi-level sampling. The students filled the learned helplessness snapshot، the academic procrastination scale، and the test anxiety inventory. This study was conducted within the descriptive framework using path analysis and correlational methods. Findings: The results indicated that LH was negatively correlated with academic achievement، while it correlated positively with the test anxiety and academic procrastination. The test anxiety and academic procrastination correlated negatively with the academic achievement، however، the academic procrastination correlated positively with the test anxiety. Path analysis results showed that the model for the relationship between the learned helplessness and the academic achievement with the mediation of academic procrastination and test anxiety does not fit. Some modifications were made which resulted in three new models which fit.

Purpose: The aim of the present study was to determine the effectiveness of tactical defenses management based on intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy on the interpersonal conflicts. Method: The study was a quasi-experimental with a control group by using pre-test and post-test with the two months follow-up period. Sixteen young people aged 20-40 years who had criteria for entering the research were randomly selected and assigned to control and experimental groups. The intervention took 12 sessions of intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy for cases. The Weeks، Fisher، and Ury questionnaire (1994) were used. The reliability of the questionnaire was0. 77، 0. 69، by Cronbach’ s alpha and splitting method، respectively. The data were analyzed using analysis of covariance and paired sample t-test. Findings: Data analysis showed that there is a significant difference between the pretest and posttest results of the experimental group in the interpersonal conflict score، but no difference was observed in the pretest and posttest of the control group. Also، the results of the T-test in the experimental group showed that the effectiveness of the intervention was stable for 2 months. management of tactical defenses by intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy had notable and persistent effectiveness to reduce the interpersonal conflicts.

Purpose: The effectiveness of the psychoeducation intervention on quality of life، mental health and well-being of patients with MS disease. Method: Twenty-four MS patients referred to MS Specialized Clinic who had criteria for entering the study were selected and randomly divided into two groups. The two groups were randomly divided into experimental and control groups. To measure the variables of the research، instruments such as QOL، Mental Health Scale and Mindfulness Scale were used. At first، both groups completed the pre-test questionnaires. Subjects were then subjected to psycho-educational intervention for 8 sessions of 150 minutes and one day of vigilance training، and control subjects continued only drug therapy. Finally، both groups completed the post-test questionnaires. Findings: The results showed that psychosocial intervention significantly improved the quality of life and the scores of patients with MS. Mental health of the patients did not change significantly after the psycho-educational intervention. Based on the results of this study، it is concluded that this intervention can be used as an appropriate and effective supplement therapy for people with MS.

Purpose: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy on Boredom and Marital commitment in Married WomenMethod: This study was a quasi-experimental research with the pre-test and post-test design. The statistical population was married women in Safashahr with at least one year and at most 15 years of marriage experience, 50 of them were selected by convenience sampling method. They were randomly divided into the experimental and control groups (each group = 25 subjects). Pines' marital boredom questionnaire, Adams and Jones' marital commitment questionnaire, as well as eight sessions of Acceptance and Commitment Training (ACT) were used as the instruments of the study. Findings: The statistical analysis of covariance showed that the impact of eight sessions of acceptance and commitment training on the couple boredom and marital commitment in married women has been significant (p.

Purpose: This study aimed to compare the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment group therapy and cognitive-behavior group therapy on the body image dissatisfaction and interpersonal sensitivity in women with the body image dissatisfaction. Method: The research was experimental including a pretest-posttest design with two experimental groups and one control group along with the three-month follow-up. The statistical population consisted of females aged from 23 to 38 years with the body image dissatisfaction who had referred to the health centers of Tehran municipal during 2016-2017. The study sample was chosen through cluster sampling method. Four health homes were randomly selected from five zones of Tehran municipality. In this way, 453 people from the total of 20 health houses formed the sample size, which according to the cutting scores in the questionnaires, entry and exit criteria, 45 women were selected and randomly replaced in three groups. The research tools were Interpersonal Sensitivity Subscale Scale (SCL-90R) and others (Dragotis et al1984), multidimensional self-body questionnaire (Cash, 1997). The experimental groups consisted of 12 sessions, 90 minutes (weekly one session) under cognitive-behavioral group therapy and group therapy based on acceptance and commitment. Findings: The results of the mixed variance and Bonferroni analysis showed a significant increase in the body image satisfaction. While both therapies were effective on the body image satisfaction at the same level, a significant decrease of interpersonal sensitivity took place in the cognitive-behavior group therapy in the pretest, however, the result did not maintain in the follow-up.

Method: The experimental design was a pre-test, post-test, and a follow-up test with the experimental and control groups. The samples consisted of 30 aggressive injurious mothers whose sons were educated in the first-grade schools of Ahvaz in the academic year of 2014-2015. They were randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups using multi-stage sampling. The experimental group received the intervention treatment of solutions-focused group therapy for seven sessions of 90 minutes which were held one session per week. Buss-Perry aggression questionnaire was used to collect the data. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and analysis of covariance. Findings: The results of this study showed that solution-focused group therapy treatment reduced aggression and its components among the mothers of the experimental group compared to the control group, while its effect (except the verbal aggression component) continued to the follow-up.

Method: The design of this study was semi-experimental in a form of pretest-posttest with the control group. The sample included 30 students with the anxiety symptoms attending the psychological clinic, half of them were assigned to the mindfulness-based cognitive therapy group and a half to the control group. The experimental group received eight sessions of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, while the control group didn’ t receive the specific intervention. Before and after the intervention, Anxiety Sensitivity Questionnaire-Revised (ASI-R) with Gratz and Romer (2004) emotion regulation questionnaire was completed by the participants. Findings: The results of MANCOVA showed that in the post-test, the anxiety sensitivity and difficulties in emotion regulation of the members of the mindfulness-based cognitive therapy group had a significant decrease compared to the control group.