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The present study was conducted with the aim of determining the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral group counseling on increasing the general health of female students. The current study is a semi-experimental type in which a pre-test and post-test design was used with an experimental group and a control group. The statistical population of the research was made up of all female high school students in the first secondary level of Marand city, and among them, 30 people (15 people each in the experimental and control groups) were selected by purposive sampling and randomly replaced in the experimental and control groups. In this research, the 28-question general health questionnaire of Goldberg and Hiller (1979) was used to collect information. Data analysis using multivariate covariance analysis method showed: teaching cognitive-behavioral approach in a group manner increases students' social functioning and significantly reduces their symptoms of depression, anxiety and physical symptoms (P≤ 0.05). It is concluded that cognitive-behavioral therapy can be well used and effective in order to increase the general health of students due to the cultural closeness with the Iranian society.

The present study aimed to investigate the effect of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy on pre-school children’s anxiety. The research method was semi-experimental with pre-test and post-test design with control group. The statistical population of the study was all students with anxiety disorders in Abhar, Zanjan. The statistical sample consisted of 30 subjects (anxiety disorder) who were selected by cluster-sampling method and randomly were embedded in two experimental and two control groups. Preschool Anxiety Scale (PSA) and Conner’s Form were used for pre-test and post-test. At first, a pretest was performed on subjects in all four groups, and then the subjects received 12 sessions of 1 hour weekly two sessions of remedial education. After the intervention, the subjects in each of the four groups were evaluated by post-test. For analyzing the data, covariance analysis was used. The results showed a significant difference between the mean of post-test scores of the experiment and control groups (anxiety disorder) (P <0.05 and F = 50.33) .In other words, cognitive-behavioral therapy reduces children's anxiety.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment based approach on Alexitimya and hopelessness of divorced demanding couples.

The research design was quasiexperimental with pretest-posttest- follow-up with the control group. The statistical population included divorcing demanding couples who referred from the Family Court and Social Emergency Intervention Center to Psychological Services center in Marand 24 couples a total of 48 who scored higher than the cut-off point on the Beck hopelessness and Toronto Alexitimya scale were selected by purposive sampling and randomly divided into two experimental and a control group (12 couples for each group).The research instrument was the Beck Hopelessness Inventory(BHI) and Toronto Alexitimya scales(TAS).and were analyzed using a mixed design.

The results showed that acceptance and commitment based approach significantly reduced hopelessness and Alexitimya of divorceddemandingcouples(P≤0/01).

Considering the results ,it can be concluded that the acceptance and commitment therapy can be an effective therapy to decrease the hopelessness and alexitimya of Divorcing Demanding Couples through training concepts such as Identification of values, mindfulness and committed action.

The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of metacognitive education group and acceptance and commitment therapy on hopelessness of divorcing demanding couples. The research design was quasi-experimental with pretest-posttest- follow-up with the control group. The statistical population included divorcing demanding couples who referred from the Family Court and Social Emergency Intervention Center to Psychological Services center in Marand 36 couples a total of 72 who scored higher than the cut-off point on the Beck hopelessness scale were selected by purposive sampling and randomly divided into two experimental and a control group (12 couples for each group). The research instrument was the Beck Hopelessness Inventory (BHI).and were analyzed using a mixed design. Results showed that both acceptance and commitment therapy and metacognitive therapy significantly reduced hopelessness of divorcing demanding couples (P≤0.01). Also, the comparison of the effectiveness of the two interventions showed that there was significant difference between the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy and metacognitive therapy on hopelessness of participants, and meta-cognitive therapy was more effective than acceptance and commitment therapy (P≤0.05). It can be concluded that meta-cognitive therapy (MCT) and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) can reduce the clients' hopelessness.

The present study was carried out in order to assess the effectiveness of Group counseling with the behavioral- Cognitive method in decreasing the anxiety symptoms among female students in Shabestar. Statistical population involved pre-university female students in Shabester. Research samples consisted of 30 students in experimental and controlled groups. The kind of study was experimental and the design used in this research was that of pre and post – test with controlled group. The measurement tool was Self- Rating anxiety scale. The research findings showed that cognitive-behavioral decrease symptoms of general anxiety, physical symptoms and mental symptoms of anxiety significantly. Cognitive- behavioral group counseling can be used as an independent method with other curing medicines in controlling or decreasing anxiety symptoms among teenagers especially students.

In this research the quality of parent- Child Relationship of two Groups of Aggressive and Non Aggressive male Students were compared.Variables of study such as: quality of parent- Child Relationship and its sub- Scales (father positive affect, father involvement, communication, anger, mother positive affect, resentment/role confusion Identification, and communication), aggression and its sub- Scales (physical Mothers, verbal aggression, anger and hostility).By using cluster sampling, 258 mole high school students, age 14-17 years old were choosen. The instruments were parent- child Relationship survey (PCRS) and Aggression Questionnaire (AQ).The method for analyzing the obtained data was U-man whitny because of non-normal distribution population- to compare independent variables.Results indicated that non aggressive students in all dimensions of father-child relationship was more involved than the Aggressive students but in terms of mother- child relationship difference and similarity dimensions were significant.