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The efficacy of cognitive therapy based on acceptance and commitment with a focus on self-compassion emotional schemas and empathy in couples
Ashraf Mohammadi Farshi, Mahdi Shahnazari, Maryam Bahrami Hidaji, Parisa Peyvandi, Fatemeh Mohammadi Shirmahaleh,
Volume 21, Issue 120 (12-2022)
Abstract
Background: Problematic emotional schemas are not only associated with emotions, but also with marital discord and decreased mindfulness, a negative view of one's emotions, and problematic coping strategies such as avoidance, rumination, or blaming oneself and others. On the other hand, empathy with the capability of understanding another’s emotional experience increases psychological well-being indicators and improves the quality of emotional schemas. Research shows the efficacy of acceptance and commitment therapy integrated with compassion on worry, rumination, social anxiety, and the relationship of couples; but there is a research gap in the application of this treatment in the studied community.
Aims: The present study sought to investigate the efficacy of cognitive therapy based on acceptance and commitment, with a focus on self-compassion emotional schemas, and empathy in couples.
Method: The research method was quasi-experimental based on a pre-test, post-test design, and follow-up with the control group. The statistical population consisted of all couples who were referred to counseling centers in Tehran in the first half of 1400. The sample size was 36 people and the sampling method was purposive with random replacement. The experimental group received the interventions in 8 weekly 90-minute group sessions. The research instruments included Leahy's emotional schemas scale II (2002) and Jolliffe and Farrington’s basic empathy scale (2006). The data were analyzed using mixed analysis of variance and SPSS-25 statistical analysis software.
Results: The results showed that cognitive intervention, based on acceptance and commitment with a focus on self-compassion, affect the variables of emotional schemas (P< 0.001) and empathy
(P< 0.001) significantly. Follow-up results showed stability in efficacy.
Conclusion: The results indicated that cognitive therapy based on acceptance and commitment with a focus on self-compassion influenced the emotional schemas and empathy in couples. Thus, cognitive therapy based on acceptance and commitment with a focus on self-compassion could be used to correct problematic emotional schemas and to increase empathy in couples.

Modeling for predicting craving beliefs of drug use based on negative psychological symptoms, with the mediating role of difficulty in regulating emotion in methamphetamine-abusing men
Sayedeh Marzieh Davoudi, Masoumeh Zhian Bagheri, Alireza Shokrgozar, Mohammad Reza Belyad, Mehdi Shahnazari,
Volume 22, Issue 123 (5-2023)
Abstract
Background: Methamphetamine abuse has caused problems in the prevention and treatment program due to its destructive effects on the brain and intense temptation with significant psychiatric symptoms. Lack of emotion regulation skills along with dysfunctional cognitive beliefs increases the desire to use methamphetamine. Emotion regulation in methamphetamine abusers has been studied in previous studies, but the study that examines the craving beliefs of drug use based on negative psychological symptoms with the mediating role of emotion regulation difficulty in the researched population. Slow, not found.
Aims: This study was conducted with the aim of modeling the prediction of craving beliefs of methamphetamine use based on negative psychological symptoms with the mediating role of difficulty regulating excitement in men abusing methamphetamine.
Methods: The method of the present study was descriptive-correlation, structural equation modeling. The statistical population of the study included all male methamphetamine users aged 20 to 45 living in addiction treatment centers affiliated to the Isfahan Welfare organization in 1401-1400, and the sample included 262 people who were selected by available sampling method. The data collection tools included three questionnaires: Craving believes questionnaire (Beck and Clark, 1993), Stress, Anxiety, Depression Scale (Lovibond and Lovibond, 1995), Diffiiculties in Emotion Regulation Scale (Gratz and Romer, 2004) and for analysis The data were also used from structural equation modeling test and path analysis to check the fit of the presented model with the obtained data and SMARTPLS-3 software.
Results: The findings of this research showed the causal model of drug craving beliefs based on negative psychological symptoms has a good fit with the mediating role of emotion regulation difficulty in methamphetamine users living in addiction treatment centers in Isfahan Province. (P>0.05).
Conclusion: According to the findings obtained in the current research that the weak emotional self-regulation of people in the long term causes their ineffectiveness in controlling addiction withdrawal and this eventually causes the influence of tempting beliefs on the continuation of drug abuse, therefore it is suggested to reduce the craving beliefs of drug use, used training methods to improve emotion regulation.

Meta-analysis of the Effectiveness of Psychological Interventions on the Quality of Life of Patients with Neurodegenerative Diseases in Iran
Sahar Maleki Sad Abadi, Javid Peymani, Mansooreh Tajvidi, Saied Malihialzackerini, Mahdi Shahnazari,
Volume 25, Issue 160 (6-2026)
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Background: Neurodegenerative disease is caused by the progressive loss of neurons in a process called neurodegeneration. This group of diseases is accompanied by a gradual loss of sensory-motor, cognitive, perceptual, and behavioral abilities.

Aims: The purpose of the present study was the meta-analysis of the research conducted on the effectiveness of psychological interventions on the quality of life of patients with neurodegenerative diseases in Iran.

 Methods: The method of this research was meta-analysis. From the set of research conducted in the field of the effectiveness of psychological interventions on the quality of life of patients with neurodegenerative diseases in Iran between 2015-2024, the studies that were acceptable in terms of methodology and met the criteria for entering this meta-analysis, 11 studies were selected by purposive sample. The total sample size of this research was 314 people. CMA-2 software was used to conduct the meta-analysis. A forest plot, funnel plot, and publication bias table were drawn using this software.

 Results: The results showed that psychological interventions are effective in the quality of life of patients with neurodegenerative diseases. I2 and Q tests were used to analyze heterogeneity and the results showed significant heterogeneity (I2=92.792, P=0.001).

 Conclusion: The result of the present study indicated that the effect size of psychological interventions on the quality of life of neurodegenerative patients in Iran is acceptable. This indicates the possible effect of increasing the knowledge and awareness of patients as well as the level of insight of the families of these patients regarding quality of life indicators in the country.

 


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