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The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of Positive Psychology on Achievement Motivation and Self-efficacy on Students Living in Dormitories of Tehran University in 1398. The present study was a quasi-experimental study with pretest-posttest design with experimental and control group. The statistical population consisted of all students residing in Tehran University dormitory who were selected by convenience sampling and were randomly assigned into two experimental (n = 15) and control (n = 15) groups. The experimental group received 8 sessions of 90 minutes of intervention based on positive psychology training and the control group remained on the waiting list. The measuring tools used in this study were the Achievement Motivation (Hermans, 1970) Questionnaire and the Self-efficacy (Sherer & Maddox, 1982) Questionnaire. Data analysis was done by SPSS19 software in two parts: descriptive and inferential (covariance). The results showed that positive psychology training improved the Achievement Motivation of students living in dormitory. The results also showed that positive psychotherapy training also increased the self-efficacy of dormitory students. Therefore, it can be said that positive psychology training is an effective way to increase the Achievement Motivation and selfefficacy in dormitory students.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of emotion-based therapy on social anxiety and interpersonal dependence of women referring to health homes. The method of this study was quasi-experimental with pretest-posttest design and control group. The statistical population of the study consisted of all women referred to health clinics in Tehran in 1398. The statistical sample of this study consisted of 40 individuals who were selected as single stage cluster sampling and then were divided into experimental (20) and control (20) groups and the experimental group received 8 sessions of emotion-based treatment. And the control group remained on the waiting list. Data were collected based on social anxiety (Connor et al., 2000) and interpersonal dependency scale (Hirschfield et al., 1977). Data analysis was performed by SPSS software in two descriptive and inferential parts (covariance). The findings showed that emotion-based therapy reduced the level of social anxiety and interpersonal dependence in women referring to health clinics. Based on the findings of this study, it can be said that emotion-focused therapy as a unique approach, in addition to being effective in treating personality disorders, can be useful in treating other mental disorders as well.

The aim of present study was "identification of the effects of play therapy training based on parent-child relationship on reducing separation anxiety disorder in 8-12 years old kids". We applied quasi-experimental research  method with pre-test, post-test and control group ; we had two group (experimental group and control group ) design and two pre-test and post-test stages in this study. The statistical population was consisted of all 8-12 years old students in second zone of Tehran in 2014 and 2015. By using Cohen table we got 30 samples ( the effect size was 0/5,α=0/05 and test power=0/76) which were distributed equally in experimental and control groups with 15 samples in each. We collected the samples by cluster random sampling method. We used Screen for Child Anxiety Related Disorders (SCARED) inventory by Birmaher(1999) as our research tool. Analysis of covariance(ANCOVA) was used for analysis of data. The results indicated that play therapy training based on parent-child relationship reduces separation anxiety disorder in 8-12 years old kids