Background Adaptive cognitive emotion regulation (CER) strategies toward eating play a very important role in obesity and according to schema therapy, patients with obesity learn that don't respond to their emotional stimuli by eating. Thus, this study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of an online video-based group schema therapy in improvement of the CER strategies and body mass index (BMI) in women who had undergone bariatric surgery. Methods Forty women who had undergone sleeve gastrectomy were selected and randomly divided into two groups of control and experimental. The experimental group received 10 weekly 90-min sessions of group schema therapy, the control group did not receive any intervention at all. Both groups completed the CER strategies questionnaire during pre-test, post-test and follow-up stages, and the data were analyzed using a multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) through SPSS software (version 20). Results Our results indicated that the experimental group demonstrated significantly higher adaptive CER strategies (P = 0.0001, F = 31.15) and significantly lower maladaptive CER strategies (P = 0.001, F = 9.42), significantly lower BMI (P = 0.001, F = 23.48), as compared to the control condition, following the group schema therapy after the follow-up stage. Conclusion The findings demonstrated that group schema therapy could lead to an increases in adaptive CER strategies and a decrease in maladaptive CER strategies and BMI in women who had undergone bariatric surgery. Trial registration IRCT, IRCT20180523039802N2. Registered 5 August 2020, http://www.irct.com/IRCT20180523039802N2.

Objective: The objective of this study was to investigate the psychological profile of families with mentally retarded children based on the family content process model in elementary schools of Shiraz in the years of 2013-2014. Methods: The present study was conducted using descriptive and casual comparative method. The statistical population includes all parents of mentally retarded students of elementary schools studying in Shiraz during the academic year of 2013-2014. The number of parents of mentally retarded students is 853 people. Using Krejcie and Morgan table, 200 individuals were selected as sample size and cluster random sampling was used. The used instrument are standard questionnaire of family process self-reporting scales, which contains 43 questions with five-point scale, and the standard questionnaire of family content self-reporting scale, which consists of 38 questions with five-point scale including seven subscales of physical and mental health, time of being with together, financial resources, physical appearance, place of living, educational facilities and social status. Results: The reliability coefficient through retest test with two week intervals and alpha coefficient for this test was 0.80 and 0.85 for the process, respectively, and this scale contains five subscales of decision making and problem solving, coping skill, coherence and mutual respect, communication skills and religious beliefs. The reliability of the questionnaires was confirmed by Cronbach’s alpha method for questionnaire of family process self-reporting scales 0.85 of the reliability of the tool was confirmed by content validity method. Conclusion: The results of the research indicate a positive and significant relationship between the investigating style of psychological profile of families with mentally retarded children and family process self-reporting scales.