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Posttraumatic stress disorder is a set of clinical symptoms that occurs following exposure to life-threatening events, and affects a variety of psychological variables. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of prolonged exposure therapy on social support and the severity of symptoms in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder.

This was a quasi-experimental study with pretest, post-test and a two-month follow-up design and a control group. Using stratified sampling method, 30 patients (15 subjects in each group) with post-traumatic stress disorder referred to Farabi Psychiatric Clinic in Kermanshah City selected and they were randomly assigned. The Mean age of the sample group was 31.9.The study inclusion criteria was having PTSD based on clinical interview. The study exclusion criteria included having psychosis symptoms, drug addiction. The data were collected by structured clinical interview (SCID-I), social support scale (MOS), and the fifth edition of the post-traumatic stress disorder index (PCL-5). Data were analyzed by repeated measures ANOVA test.

The results showed that prolonged exposure therapy was significantly effective in increasing social support (F=2/66, P<0/01) and reducing the severity of symptoms (F=42/19, P<0/01) among the patients with post-traumatic stress disorder.

These results indicate that prolonged exposure therapy can alleviate the symptoms of the patients with post-traumatic stress disorder.

Strategic intelligence as a determining factor in the decision making need to describe the threats, risks and opportunities in a useful way, through which we can develop programs and policies of the organization. The main objective of this study is to analysis the relationship between strategic intelligence of operational managers and effectiveness of self-managed teams in Mobarakeh Steel Company. In this study, a conceptual model that combines strategic intelligence components and indicators of the effectiveness of self-managed teams were presented. The study sample was consisted of operations managers as number 450, and on the basis of Cochran, statistical sample size was calculated about 207. After that, a questionnaire was designed and sent to a number of teachers for verify the validity and after revisions, 350 questionnaires were distributed among the sample. 108 questionnaires were returned and after removal of flawed questionnaires, data of 102 questionnaires were analyzed by software PLS. The results of this study shows the original hypothesis was confirmed and it was represented that the strategic intelligence accounts for as much as 65% of the effectiveness of self-managed-teams changes. Among the sub-hypotheses the impact of business intelligence of operation managers on teams’ effectiveness and the impact of knowledge management on teams’ effectiveness were confirmed and it was suggested that business intelligence and knowledge management account for as much as 37% and 23% of the effectiveness of self-managed-teams changes. The impact of competitive intelligence of operation managers on teams’ effectiveness was not confirmed.