فصلنامه مطالعات روانشناختی
سال سیزدهم شماره 4 (پیاپی 49، زمستان 1396)

As you probably know, Hoarding disorder is typified by persistent difficulties discarding possessions, regardless of their value, resulting in significant clutter that obstructs the individual's living environment and produces considerable functional impairment. Therefore, recognition of this disorder causes can play a valuable role to introduce it. The control needs to know the heritability of this disorder and its explanatory model by twin studies and quantitative genetic occurs. This study was a systematic review. Therefore, some keywords including hoarding disorder, behavioral genetics, shared and non-shared environmental factors, shared and non-shared genetic factors and etiology were searched in the NCBI, science direct, springer database and collection of related articles extracted until November 2015. The findings demonstrated a substantial genetic, and more modest environmental with a different range according to gender and age in etiology of hoarding disorder. Consequently, The results were explained on the basis of the theoretical foundations and clinical data was discussed.

Aim: the present study aims at investigating the effectiveness of five components approach (p5) on behavioral problems of adolescents with autism spectrum disorder.
the present study employs an AB single-subject design. The population consists of all adolescents with ASD in the City of Isfahan. The sample size consists of 3 adolescents with ASD selected via the purposive sampling method. The research instruments are the Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis Scale (ASDDS) and the Assessment of Behavioral Problems in Adolescents with Autism Checklist (AABPC). After five baseline sessions, intervention was conducted during eight weeks. Finally, three follow-up sessions were conducted as well. To interpret and make conclusions, charts, visual analyses, the trend index and stability index, Percentage of Non-Overlapping Data (PND), and Percentage of Overlapping Data (PND) were used.
Findings: after visual analyses of data charts, it was identified that the intervention was effective on the three subjects. The PND for the three subjects were 87.5, 100, and 87.5.
the results indicated that the five component approach (p5) reduces significantly the behavioral problems of adolescents with ASD. Therefore, besides other training and rehabilitation methods for adolescents with ASD, the p5 can be employed.

The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between attachment styles, self-differentiation, aducation and sexual function. The research method was descriptive-correlation. The statistical population consisted of all married female students in universities of Ahwaz. Through convenient sampling, 177 students of Ahwaz universities were selected. The instruments used in this study were women’s sexual function index Questionnaire, behavioral methods Questionnaire and self–differentiation Questionnaire. The data analysis were performed using correlation coefficient and regression analysis. Results showed a significant positive relationship between unsafe attachment style and sexual function, a significant negative relationship between safe attachment style and sexual function, a significant negative relationship between self-differentiation and sexual function and also a significant positive relationship between education and sexual function. Regression analysis results, using a step-by-step method, showed that predictive variables can predict the sexual function. These results indicated that attachment styles, self-differentiation and education have significant effects on sexual function. These findings confirmed the need to concentrate on relational and psychological factors in women’s experience of sex. Thus, attention to these variables in prevention, pathology, counseling, and treatment programs is necessary.

Methamphetamine abuse is a kind of addictions that there is not any useful antagonist to withdraw or control it in drug abuse area. For this purpose this research was performed aimed to investigate the cognitive functions and cognitive-executive models of the patients and to compare the results with normal people. The sample of 60 participants were availably selected and equally divided in to methamphetamine abusers and normal groups. The entry criteria were controlled such as age, education, and time of abuse. Data was collected by Wisconsin, Meta-cognition and continuous operation tests. Results showed methamphetamine group were significantly weaker than normal group in meta-cognition, cognitive flexibility and focus attention as well as the most difference were in meta-cognition and focus attention. According to the findings, methamphetamine abusers significantly show poor performance in executive functions than normal people. There need more study to conclusion, but it seems that executive function enhancement could effect on methamphetamine abuse withdraw or control.

The aim of present study was to investigating the comparison of coherence self-knowledge and alexithymia in normal and divorce male students at Meshginshahr city in the2015-2016 academic year. The method of this study is causal-comparative. The population of this study included all divorced and normal male students students that from this population 120 students were selected as sample by using random cluster sampling method. Data was collected by using of Self-knowledge Coherence and alexithymia Scales. Data analyzed using multivariate analysis of variance.
Results showed that there are a differences significant between the two groups in coherence self-knowledge and alexithymia (p

The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) enriched with compassion for high school students’ obsession with obsessive-compulsive disorder in Isfahan. The research method was quasi-experimental based on a pre-test, post-test design and follow-up with control group. The statistical society were high school males with obsessive-compulsive disorder in Isfahan during the second semester of the academic year of 2015-2016; who were referred to Isfahan psychotherapy and counseling centers.They were 30 students who were selected by purposive sampling method. Then they were randomly divided into experimental (15 students and 15 parents) and control groups (15 students and 15 parents). Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) enriched with compassion was implemented for 2- hour 28 counseling sessions weekly, but the control group did not receive any intervention. The research instrument was obsessive-compulsive Yale - Brown Scale. Data was analyzed by using variance analysis of repeated measures. The results indicated that ACT enriched with compassion influenced on obsessive symptoms of high school males with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Therefore, the use of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) enriched with compassion is an effective treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder in high school males’ obsessions with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

The overall objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on quality of life and happiness psychiatric hospital caregivers is the martyr of Zare. This study is applied and the method, the preceding studies PyshZmvn and PsZmvn quasi-experimental design with a control group. The population of it, all nurses psychiatric hospital patients martyr Zare to form the number 85 because of the quasi-experimental study, 40 patients (20 cases and 20 controls) using the sampling method available as were chosen. The World Health Organization Quality of Life questionnaire to collect data in four dimensions and Oxford happiness questionnaire with 26 questions and 29 questions was used. Tools face and content validity was confirmed by experts and its reliability using Cronbach's alpha coefficient for the quality of life questionnaire 734/0 and 84/0 respectively happiness questionnaire. To analyze the data Zmvn Hay univariate analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) and multivariate (MANCOVA) is used. Results showed that mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on quality of life and happiness psychiatric hospital caregivers martyr Zare has a significant impact

Child Cancer has several effects on all family members. Caring of children facing chronic diseases like cancer, can imposes large burden on the parents.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of existential group Psychotherapy on psychological well-being in mother of children with cancer.
This study used a quasi-experimental method in the pre-test posttest groups. Thirty parents of children with cancer were divided randomly into experimental and control groups. Both groups were assessed with Reyf psychological well-being scale , as pre-test. The experimental group received existential group Psychotherapy in 8sessions, each lasting 90 minutes (2 sessions per week), but no psychological intervention was applied to the control group. At the end of the intervention, both groups were reassessed through post-test. Data were analyzed by SPSS through analysis of covariance.
Significant differences in psychological well-being between the two groups was shown. So it can be said that existential group Psychotherapy is effective to enhance psychological well-being of mothers of children with cancer.

This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of group training based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) on aggression and anxiety in patients with panic. This study was Semi-experimental research with pretest - posttest with control group. For this purpose, the sample was randomly included in two experimental (10 subjects) and control (10 subjects) groups by convenient sampling method from patients aged 20 to 40 years old to some centers to counseling and treatment centers and psychiatric clinics of Tehran in 2015 who suffered from panic cholera using the techniquediagnosis of the attending psychiatrist and through Spielberger STAI-Y anxiety scale screening test and Buss-Perry Aggression. Then, the experimental group received the intervention based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for 6 session and 90 minutes, and the control group received no intervention. After finishing the training course, questionnaires were distributed in both groups and data from pretest, posttest and They were analyzed by analysis of covariance. The results showed a significant difference between the scores of both groups in terms of the effect of group training based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. According to the results, group training based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy can be used as an effective and efficient method with applicability in improving anxiety and aggression in patients with panic attack.

The aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy of treatment of schema therapy on marital satisfaction of couples referring to the clinic due to marital problems. This research was carried out with a semi-experimental research project in two groups of 12 (12 couples) and 12 (12 couples) who were selected randomly and divided into two groups. In two stages, Enrique's marital satisfaction was performed on them and a multivariate covariance analysis was used to analyze the data. The results of the hoteling effect test indicate the difference between the two groups in the components. The experimental group was divided into components of the conventional response, satisfaction, conflict resolution, leisure time, sex, family and children, gender equality and marital satisfaction, Considerable compared to the control group. The results of this study showed that the excitement therapy scheme was effective on marital satisfaction, quality of life and coping styles and the research hypotheses were proved. Its use can be useful by family centers, family counselors, other organs and related organizations to improve the living conditions of families.