Group Positive Psychotherapy Effect on Increasing the Happiness of Mothers of Children with Cochlear Implant

Falakaflaki, Sima; Malekitabar, Mahmoud

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“…Research studies have shown that it is possible to train children and adolescents to learn the required skills to implicate optimism and reality-based positive thinking according to their psychological problems and to manage the mental tensions and problematic situations (Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2014;Stewart, Watson, Clark, Ebmeier, & Deary, 2010). positive psychotherapy refers to using positive thinking interventions to deal with depression by encouraging positive emotions, raising the level of positive engagement in life, and increasing the meaning of life (Falakaflaki & Malekitabar, 2016). These people would like to pay more attention to their merits and resources, rather than the possibility of failure and problems (Ji, Holmes, & Blackwell, 2017;Khodabakhsh, Khosravi, & Zarrinpour, 2015).…”

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Evaluating the Efficacy of Positive Psychotherapy on Life Expectancy in Students With Hemophilia: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Heydari

Shirazi

Sanagouyemoharer

2019

Pract. Clin. Psychol.

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Hemophilia is a genetic bleeding disorder results from a deficient in synthesis of a protein needed for blood clotting. The number of people with hemophilia in the United States is about 20,000. Iran having the ninth largest Hemophilia population in the world. Hemophilia lead to many psychological and physiological complications. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of positive psychotherapy on the Life expectancy as one of psychological aspects in hemophilia students. Methods: The present study is a quasi-experimental interventional study along with experimental and control groups. The subjects were evaluated in the pre-test, post-test and two-month follow-up. Study population including all senior elementary and junior high school students with hemophilia who had medical records in Zahedan Hemophilia Society. After screening, 60 students were selected and randomly assigned into two 30-member groups of experimental and control. The research tool was Snyder Children's Hope Scale questionnaire (1991). Positive psychotherapy workshop was held in 8 sessions (Two 120 minutes sessions weekly) and followup test was done two months after the end of the last training session. The obtained information was analyzed through repeated measurement variance. Results: The results show significant effectiveness of positive psychotherapy on increasing Life expectancy in patients with hemophilia and indicated the durability of this therapy in the follow-up stage. In this research we highlighted the need for training and using positive psychotherapy as a new, safe and effective psychological therapy for student suffering Hemophilia. Conclusion: We emphasize for the implication of this study result and method by clinicians and policy makers to manage psychological problems of students suffering from Hemophilia.

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