Journal of Clinical And Community Medicine

Objective:   Dysfunctional attitudes are factors leading to many of psychiatric diseases such as obsession. In this regard, this study was conducted to examine the efficacy of Cognitive Therapy (CT) on beliefs in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Method:   Experimental method with two control and experimental groups applied in this study. Statistical population of this study consisted of 120 patients with OCD referring to a specialized clinic for OCD treatment in Tehran; of that, 40 patients who had required criteria were selected through random method and assigned to two 20-member groups including experimental group (cognitive restructuring) and control group. Pretesting two groups, first group participated in 10 sessions for cognitive restructuring while control group were in waiting list. Weissman and Beck’s Dysfunctional Attitude Scale was used as tool in this research and obtained findings were analyzed using descriptive statistics and ANCOVA through SPSS-18 Software. ...

The purpose of the study was to identify emotion problems of psychologists who committed suicide through the material they have written. Convenient purposive sampling was used to identify and select the sample. Books that were freely available was preferred. Books written by Silberer [1] and Gardner [2] were chosen as sample, both of them belonged to different time frame and school of thoughts. Key word analysis along with interpretive content analysis was used to identify emotional problems expressed by these authors in the written content. Subjective knowledge was coded as neutral, only opinion-based line were coded. Key word analysis showed more prevalence of positive words and mild feeling words in the content. Interpretive content analysis showed the presence of psychological issues like depression, anxiety, anger, frustration, guilt, grief, uncertainty, high self-esteem, and stress. Common patterns emerged were extreme point of view in generic conduct of society or in overall opi...

The growing number of global cities present a new paradigm for domestic public health practice which requires thinking at scale and pace within an international context of population belief patterns and a looming threat of global risk transmission along economic and recreational transport corridors. This expert opinion piece reflects on this emerging paradigm through the perspective of the director of public health at Birmingham, England’s second city. Read more about articles: http://lupinepublishers.com/clinical-community-medicine/fulltext/public-health-leadership-in-emerging-global-cities.ID.000120.php Read more  Lupine Publishers Google Scholar   articles: https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=vfbCW-wAAAAJ&cstart=20&pagesize=80&citation_for_view=vfbCW-wAAAAJ:HbR8gkJAVGIC