mahshid shabani

The family, as the most fundamental cultural and social institution, has the most stable effect on its members, so that people's attitudes, behaviors, beliefs and emotions are deeply influenced by the family context. The bricks of a family are based on the emotional ties and personal trust of each couple, which is not only comfort for the individual, but also for the whole family. The absence of each parent in the family environment due to divorce disturbs its balance, weakens the functions of the family, and reduces social supervision and control. As a result, addiction and delinquency, physical problems, psychological and social disturbances, and disorders of behavior increase in children. Children of divorce face intellectual, emotional, identity and social challenges in groups of friends due to receiving social stigma, which forms the basis for behavioral disorders in them. Therefore, The present study was conducted to develop a psychological capital training package and evaluate its Effectiveness on the alexitimia of the Students Engaged in Divorce with Externalized Behavior Disorder.
 
The research method of the present study was thematic analysis through comparative method in the qualitative part and quasi-experimental with pretest, posttest, control group design and two-month follow-up period in the quantitative part. The statistical population of the present study included the students engaged in divorce with externalized behavior disorder who were studying in the first high school in the academic year 2020–21 in the city of Isfahan. 40 students engaged in divorce with externalized behavior disorder were selected through the purposive sampling method and randomly accommodated into experimental and control groups (each group of 20 students). The experimental group received ten 75-minute sessions of psychological capital training over two and a half months. 3 people from the experimental group and three from the control group quit participating in the study. The applied questionnaires in this study included alexitimia questionnaire (AQ) and children and adolescents behavioral inventory (CABI). The data from the study were analyzed through a mixed ANOVA via SPSS 23 statistical software.
 
The results showed that the psychological empowerment package enjoys suitable content validity from the experts’ viewpoint. Furthermore, this package has had an effect on the alexitimia (f = 17.02, eta = 0.35, p≤0.001) of the students engaged in divorce with externalized behavior disorder. In addition, the results showed that the effect of the psychological empowerment package was stable on the alexitimia of the students engaged in divorce and the externalized behavior disorder of the patients with follow-up stages. After carefully examining the descriptive findings, it was found that the psychological empowerment package reduced the alexitimia of the students engaged in divorce with externalized behavior disorder in the pre-test and post-test stages.
 
According to the findings of the present study, it can be concluded that psychological capital training can be used as an efficient method to decrease alexitimia in the students engaged in divorce with externalized behavior disorder through employing the fundamentals of resilience, optimism, hope and self-efficacy. In addition, it should be said that psychological capital is introduced as a structure beyond social and internal capital and includes your identity in the direction of "what you are" and "what you can be". This process can cause changes in people's emotional processing and reduce their alexitimia.

The stress caused by parenting a child with autism leads to caregiver burden and mental fatigue in mothers. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of mindfulness-based stress reduction of caregiver burden and mental fatigue of mothers with autistic children. 

The research method was semi-experimental with a pre-test/post-test and a control group design. The statistical population of the present study included all mothers of children with autism in autism educational centers in Isfahan in the academic year of 2018-2019. Among them, thirty mothers were selected by the available sampling method and then randomly divided into two experimental and control groups. For data collection, the mental fatigue questionnaire (Falman et al., 2013) and the caregiver burden questionnaire (Zarit et al., 1980) were used in the pre-test and post-test state. The experimental group received mindfulness-based stress reduction therapy for eight sessions, but the control group received no intervention. Data analysis was performed using covariance analysis.

The results showed that mean scores of caregiver burden and mental fatigue in the experimental group significantly decreased. (P<0.05)

Based on the findings of this study, it can be concluded that mindfulness-based stress reduction can be used as an interventional method in reducing the caregiver burden and mental fatigue of mothers with an autistic child.

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of mindfulness-based stress reduction training on emotion regulation difficulties and psychological well-being in premenstrual syndrome. The research method is semi-experimental with pre-test-posttest design with control group. The research population consisted of all women referring to Health Center of Dolatabad in the second half of 1396. A sample of 30 subjects was selected through purposeful sampling and randomly divided into two groups (15 subjects) and control (15 subjects). Then, the experimental group was trained by mindfulness-based stress reduction program in 8 sessions. To collect data, a short form reef psychological well-being scale (RSPWB-SF) and an emotional adjustment difficulty questionnaire (DERS) were used. The data were analyzed using covariance analysis and analyzed using SPSS software. : The results showed that mindfulness-based stress reduction had a significant effect on decreasing the emotion regulation difficulties and its components. Also, there was a significant effect on mindfulness-based stress reduction on psychological well-being and its components. The results of this study showed that mindfulness-based stress reduction can be used as a useful intervention method for increasing psychological well-being and decreasing emotion regulation difficulties in women with premenstrual syndrome.

This study aimed to examine the effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction on impulsivity and High Risk Behaviors in adolescents. The study was a quasi-experimental design with pre-posttest experimental and control groups. The statistical population included all high school female students in the academic year was 96-1395. The sample consisted of 32 students, who were selected with available sampling. The sample of 32 participants were placed randomly assigned to experimental and control groups, thus 16 patients in the experimental group and 16 patients in the control group. To collect the data, impulsivity questionnaire (Barrett et al., 1995) and test high-risk behaviors (Rashid and Hydra, 1391). In order to analyze the results in addition to using descriptive statistics, multivariate analysis of covariance was used. Results showed that mindfulness-based stress reduction therapy to reduce high-risk behaviors (Insecure sexual behavior, violence, drug use) was effective. Mindfulness-based stress reduction therapy to reduce impulsivity (motor impulsivity, Cognitive impulsivity and lack of planning) was effective. So it can be concluded that mindfulness-based stress reduction treatment approach is an effective way to reduce impulsivity and risk behaviors of adolescents.