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Introduction: The present study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of teaching cognitive skills based on stress reduction on students' night homework anxiety. Materials and Methods: The statistical population of this study included all elementary students of the second period of Khorasan Razavi province who had homework anxiety. 24 of them (experimental and control groups) were selected by purposeful method. For data collection, the problem scale of the homework for children at the ANCCO and colleagues (HPC) was used. After performing the pre-test, the intervention of cognitive skills training was presented to the experimental group in format of eight 45 minute- sessions. At the end of the intervention, two groups were evaluated in post-test phase. Covariance analysis was used to analyze the data. Results: The results show that after controlling the pre-test, the difference between the pre-test and post-test scores of the two groups was significant for homework anxiety, and the mean scores of the experimental group was significantly less than the control group (0.45, ETA, P<0.05, F=17.26). The effect of this intervention on night homework anxiety is 0.45. Conclusion: According to the results, it seems that the training of cognitive skills based on stress reduction is effective on students´ night homework anxiety. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: The present study investigates the effectiveness of group reality therapy on symptoms of social anxiety, interpretation bias and interpersonal relationships in adolescents. Materials and Methods: The research population of this clinical research consisted of all students in ninth grade female Sabzevar city in academic year of 2016-2017 that this number based on social anxiety scale score teens, a negative interpretation consequences social and interpersonal relationships in the pre-test were 24 persons who were selected via convenient method and they randomly divided into two groups of experimental and control. The experimental group received group reality therapy and the controls received no treatment. Data analyzed through covariance analysis and SPSS software version 21. Results: The results showed that social anxiety scores and interpretation bias and interpersonal relationships in adolescents who participated in the experimental group than in the control group have been replaced teens that had a significant change (P<0.05). Conclusion: It seems that group reality therapy is effective on social anxiety, interpretation bias and interpersonal relationships in adolescents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]