Comparison of the Effectiveness of Behavior Therapy Beharioral-Cognnitive

Hyperactivity-attention deficit are disorders with a conspicuous prevalence (3 to 5 percent) that is characterized at the beginning of school education period and results in serious problems for the individual. Family and the school educationally, behaviorally and communicatively, Thus the present study aimed at investigating the effectiveness of each of the therapeutic methods including behavioral, behavioral-cognitive pharmaceutical and combinational (a combination of the methods mentioned). the subjects of the present study were 9-14 year-old referrals to psychiatry and counseling centers. They were recognized as sufferers from the disorder based on the results of a psychiatry interview and the CSI-4 questionnaire. 75 subjects were randomly selected from among all the referrals and were randomly assigned to four experimental groups and one control group (15 in each). The independent variable of the study consisted of the therapeutic methods, which were applied to the therapeutic groups during 10 sessions of treatment: the dependent variable was thd degree of ADHD disorder. The techniques and methods assigned to the therapeutic groups consisted, respectively, of: coupon economics and the operant conditioning for the behavioral therapy, Mikenbam k self-instruction method for the behavioral-conditiive group, prescribing Ritalin for the pharmaceutical group and finally all the above mentioned methods for the combinational group. The control group received no intervention during this period. The posttest was administered to the experimental and the control groups simultaneously one week after the accomplishment of the therapeutic intervention. The results of the study were analyzed using the one-way ANOVA and the Tukey post-hoc. The results indicated that there has been a significant difference between the effectiveness of the therapeutic methods and ADHD (P< 0.05 and F 4 4.70=69.504). The tukey post-hoc indicated that there was a significant difference, in terms of the pretest=posttest score differences and ADHD symptom elimination, between behavioral and pharmaceutical (P<0.05), between behavioral and combinational (P< 0.05), between behavioral and control (P<0.05), between behavioral-cognitive and combinational (P<0.05), between behavioral-cognitive and control (P<0.05), between pharmaceutical and control (P<0.05), also between combinational and control (P<0.05). There was no significant difference between the behavioral and behavioral-cognitive (P<0.05), between behavioral-cognitive and pharmaceutical (P<0.05), also, between pharmaceutical and combinational (P<0.05).