Clinical Psychology Unit

Unit Head: Dr. Modares Gharavi, Morteza

Individual Psychotherapy:

This method use for those that suffer from emotional problems and neurosis, such as anxiety, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, phobias, psychosomatic disorder, somatoform disorder, and relational problem are the most common referral reasons for psychotherapy.

Family Therapy:

family therapy conducted for solving family conflicts, correcting relational patterns, improving marital skills, and also psycho education programs for caregivers of mental patients to help them for coping with burden of cares, developing skills in order to cope with stress, and recognizing relapse signs and factors.

Group Therapy:

In group therapy approximately 6-10 individuals meet face-to-face with a trained group therapist. During the group meeting time, members decide what they want to talk about.

Members are encouraged to give feedback to others. Feedback includes expressing your own feelings about what someone says or does. Interaction between group members are highly encouraged and provides each person with an opportunity to try out new ways of behaving; it also provides members with an opportunity for learning more about the way they interact with others. It is a safe environment in which members work to establish a level of trust that allows them to talk personally and honestly. Group members make a commitment to the group and are instructed that the content of the group sessions are confidential. It is not appropriate for group members to disclose events of the group to an outside person.

Behavior therapy is a form of psychotherapyused to treat depression, anxiety disorders, phobias, and other forms of psychopathology. Its philosophical roots can be found in the school of behaviorism, which states that psychological matters can be studied scientifically by observing overt behavior, without discussing internal mental states.

Cognitive Therapy:

Cognitive Therapy (CT) is a type of psychotherapy. Becoming disillusioned with long-term psychodynamicapproaches based on gaining insight into unconscious emotions and drives, the way in which clients perceived and interpreted and attributed meaning—a process known scientifically as cognition—in their daily lives was a key to therapy.

Cognitive – Behavioral Therapy:

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy is a form of psychotherapy that emphasizes the important role of thinking in how we feel and what we do. The term "cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)" is a very general term for a classification of therapies with similarities. There are several approaches to cognitive-behavioral therapy, including Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, Rational Behavior Therapy, Rational Living Therapy, Cognitive Therapy, and Dialectic Behavior Therapy

Supportive Psychotherapy:

Supportive therapy is sometimes said to be a name for what every good psychotherapist does most of the time, often without acknowledging it and without knowing how it is done. The dictionary defines "supportive" in the medical sense as "serving to sustain the strength and condition of a patient." Synonyms include helpful, caring, encouraging, and sympathetic.

Interpersonal Psychotherapy:

Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) is a time-limited psychotherapythat was developed in the 1970s and 80s as an outpatient treatment for adults who were diagnosed with moderate or severe non-delusional clinical depression. Over the last 30 years, a number of empirical studies have demonstrated the efficacy of IPT in the treatment of depression. Although originally developed as an individual therapy for adults, IPT has been modified for use with adolescents and older adults, bipolar disorder, bulimia, post-partum depressionand couples counseling; and although IPT has its roots in psychodynamic theory, it takes its cues from contemporary cognitive behavioralapproaches both in that it is time-limited and also in its use of homework, structured interviews and assessment tools.

ِDiagnostic interview and mental status examination (MSE):

The history and Mental Status Examination (MSE) are the most important diagnostic tools a psychiatrist has to obtain information to make an accurate diagnosis. Although these important tools have been standardized in their own right, they remain primarily subjective measures that begin the moment the patient enters the office. The clinician must pay close attention to the patient's presentation, including personal appearance, social interaction with office staff and others in the waiting area, and whether the patient is accompanied by someone (ie, to help determine if the patient has social support). These first few observations can provide important information about the patient that may not otherwise be revealed through interviewing or one-on-one conversation.

psychological tests:

• Intelligence, apetite and mental capacities
  • Wechsler intelligence scale for preliminary and primary school (WPIS)
  • Wechsler intelligence scale for children (WISC-R)
  • Wechsler adult intelligence scale (WAIS-R)
  • reiven adult intelligence scale
  • kohs cubes test
  • PROTEOOS maze test
  • goodinaf person test
  • binet test
• personality assessment using objective test such as:
  • MMPI andMMPI-2
  • MCMI-2
  • Scl90-R
  • CPI
• personality assessment using projective test such as:
  • Rorschach
  • TAT
  • CAT
  • HTP
• psychopathology assessment using self report scales and inventory

• neuropsychological assessment by tests:

  • Wechsler adult intelligence scale (WAIS)

  • Wechsler intelligence scale for children (Wisc-R)

  • MMSE questionaire

  • Wechsler memory scale (WMS)

  • Bender gestalt test

  • vygostky test

  • wisconsin test