s. ghasemzadeh

The body of research shows that teachers’ educational style and type of thinking can have fundamental effects on children. This study set out to evaluate the effectiveness of the Child Development Educational Program on improving teachers' educational styles. The present quasi-experimental study had a pre-test, post-test design without a control group. The sample included the teachers of 7-11 year-old students in a private school in Tehran who were selected through convenience sampling method. The Teacher Educational Style Questionnaire was used as the pretest and the sample participated in 5 two-hour weekly sessions. After the workshop, the post-test was administered and the research data were analyzed via dependent t-test. Results revealed that the child development workshop could significantly increase the problem-solving method in teachers and decrease their scores on the three other methods, namely punishment and reprimand, advice without explanation, and advice with explanation (p<0.001). In general, the findings showed that the Child Development Educational Program played a significant role in improving the educational style of teachers. When teachers participate in such educational programs, they learn alternative solutions to punishment or advice and encourage their students to solve various problems.

The purpose of the present study was to design a training program based on resilience components and evaluate its impact on the cognitive emotion regulation of mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder. In this quasi-experimental research, first the training program was designed based on resilience components and then the program effectiveness was assessed through a pretest-posttest control group design with a follow-up session. The statistical population of the study was comprised of all mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder who were referred to one of the counseling centers in Tehran in 2018, from among whom 30 individuals were selected through purposive sampling method and were randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups. The experimental group received training in resilience components in twelve 90-minute sessions within 3 months, while the control group received no intervention. The research instrument included the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (Garnefski et al., 2001). The collected data were analyzed via repeated measures ANOVA. The results revealed that the training program based on resilience components was effective in promoting the cognitive emotion regulation of mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder (P<0.05). These results were stable over the three-month follow-up period. The findings demonstrated that training in resilience components can be utilized as an effective method to increase cognitive emotion regulation in mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder.

In recent years, an increase in the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has made it to be one of the significant neurodevelopmental disorders, and well-timed diagnosis for effective intervention has always been emphasized. Using the tools with desirable psychometric features for the considered population is one of the diagnostic ways of the disorder. The goal of the study was to specify sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy of 3rd version of GARS-3 edition (Gilliam autism rating scale- 3) in Persian.

This descriptive research is of authentication type. The statistical sample was selected from four provinces in 2019- 2020 and included 3- 22 year-old people; out of which 117 were autistic, 55 deaf, 94 mental retarded, and 52 normal. The data was collected from the sample group and GARS (2013) questionnaire then was analyzed by descriptive indexes.

The results indicated that for both 4 and 6-point scales in accuracy index, the maximum amount for the autistic and normal groups was 0.93, and the minimum amount for the autistic and mental retarded ones was 0.76. In specificity index, the maximum amount for the autistic and normal groups was 0.90, and the minimum amount for the autistic and mental retarded ones was 0.52, and finally for sensitivity index the amount was 0.95.

With regard to the achieved results of 3 significant psychometric scopes, using this type of screening tool to diagnose ASD in Iranian kids is advised. Although using other psychometric findings is also emphasized.

The use of distributed generation resources (grid-connected or islanded) such as solar systems and wind turbines in the form of microgrids can solve problems related to traditional power systems. On the other hand, the monitoring of power quality disturbances in microgrids is an important issue for compensating these problems. Among the various types of power quality disturbances, harmonic distortions are important. Accordingly, in this paper, a computational method has been used based on the recursive least squares withthe variable forgetting factor (VFF-RLS). The prominent features of the proposed method are its high accuracy and speed, as well as identification with a low rate of signal samples. The main aim of the proposed method is to identify the contribution and extent of harmonics and unbalanced in a microgrid equipped with Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI). In the proposed method, the identification is based on real-time estimation and using measured data with high computational speed and accuracy. The results of simulation by MATLAB software, and as well as the experimental results using the TMS320F2812 digital signal processor (DSP) show the validity of the proposed method.

Dou to penetration of stochastic resources in the microgrids, the need for new control and scheduling method is essential. Reconfiguration strategy can be considered as a practical solution for network performance improvement. Therefore, in this paper the scheduling of reconfigurable microgrid (RMG) in the normal and emergency conditions are analyzed. It is assumed that microgrid consists of several small neighboring microgrids, so in addition to the microgrid scheduling in the normal condition, the problem of neighboring microgrid management will be solved in the emergency condition. In the first condition, microgrid total cost minimization is considered as an objective while in the emergency condition, the microgrid divided to several neighboring microgrids and the proposed method tries to find the optimal structure for neighboring connection and minimizes the total load shedding, until the return to the normal condition. The results show the effectiveness of proposed method from the cost and load shedding minimization point of view.

The purpose of this study was to compare self-efficacy beliefs and mental health and their relationship between gifted and normal students.

A cross-sectional study was conducted. The sample of this study was randomly selected and consisted of 100 students (50 gifted student and 50 normal students) in Babul. Data were collected by Sherer’s General Self-Efficacy Scale, General Health Questionnaire and Raven’s Intelligence Test (Adult forms). Independent t-test, Pearson's correlation and multivariate regression tests were used to analyze the data.

There were significant differences between the average mental health (p= 0.001) and self-efficacy beliefs (p= 0.005) of gifted and normal students. Also, there were significant relationships between self-efficacy beliefs and mental health and its components in gifted and normal students (p= 0.01, r= 0.650).

According to the results, it seems that normal students had lower levels of mental health as compared to gifted students. It is recommended that students of normal schools by psychologists, counselors and other staff in the schools, more attention to them.