The Effectiveness of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy on Emotional Regulation and Marital Conflicts of Women with Borderline Personality Disorder in Isfahan City

Background: This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of dialectical behavioral therapy on emotional regulation and marital conflicts of women with borderline personality disorder in Isfahan city in Isfahan. Methods: This is a semi-experimental method with pre-test, post-test, and followed with the control group. To conduct the study, 30 women with borderline personality disorder referring to Isfahan Family Therapy Clinics in 2017, who were willing to participate in the study were selected based on criteria of entry and exit and were randomly divided into two experimental groups (15 persons) and control (15 persons) and complete the pretest, Gross & John (2003) and Marital Conflict Questionnaire (MCQ). The experimental group underwent dialectical behavioral therapy at 10 sessions (weekly and 2 hours) and one week after intervention, both experimental and control groups were subjected to post-test. After the completion of the training and post-test, a one-month follow-up period was completed. The repeated measures analysis of variance was performed using  SPSS Statistics ver22. The significant level was set at 0.05. Results: The results of repeated measures of variance analysis showed that dialectical behavioral therapy had an effect on emotional regulation and marital conflicts. And leads to improved emotional reactions and reduced marital conflicts in women with borderline personality disorder in Isfahan (p-value<0.001). Conclusions: The effect of this treatment on emotional regulation and marital conflicts of women with borderline personality disorder was stable. As a result, dialectical behavioral therapy as a therapeutic approach is recommended to improve the psychological status of women with borderline personality disorder symptoms. Keywords: Dialectical behavioral therapy, Emotional regulation, Marital conflicts, Borderline personality disorder

The velocity of shear waves in unsaturated soil

The velocities of shear waves Vs in two soils, a loamy sand and a sandy clay loam, were measured at various matric potentials and confining pressures. We used a combination of Haines apparatus, pressure plate apparatus and a Bishop and Wesley tri-axial cell to obtain a range of saturation and consolidation states. We proposed a single effective stress variable based on a modification to Bishop’s equation which could be used in a published empirical model (Santamarina et al., 2001) to relate shear wave velocity to soil physical conditions. Net stress required a nonlinear transformation. Matric potential was converted into suction stress with the function proposed by Khallili and Khabbaz (1998), thus requiring an estimate of the air entry potential. We found it was possible to fit Vs to void ratio, net stress and matric potential with a set of four parameters which were common to all soils at various states of saturation and consolidation. In addition to the data collected for this study we also used previously published data (Whalley et al., 2011). The utility of shear wave measurements to deduce soil physical properties is discussed

The Effectiveness of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy on Emotional Regulation and Marital Conflicts of Women with Borderline Personality Disorder in Isfahan City

Background: This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of dialectical behavioral therapy on emotional regulation and marital conflicts of women with borderline personality disorder in Isfahan city in Isfahan. Methods: This is a semi-experimental method with pre-test, post-test, and followed with the control group. To conduct the study, 30 women with borderline personality disorder referring to Isfahan Family Therapy Clinics in 2017, who were willing to participate in the study were selected based on criteria of entry and exit and were randomly divided into two experimental groups (15 persons) and control (15 persons) and complete the pretest, Gross & John (2003) and Marital Conflict Questionnaire (MCQ). The experimental group underwent dialectical behavioral therapy at 10 sessions (weekly and 2 hours) and one week after intervention, both experimental and control groups were subjected to post-test. After the completion of the training and post-test, a one-month follow-up period was completed. The repeated measures analysis of variance was performed using  SPSS Statistics ver22. The significant level was set at 0.05. Results: The results of repeated measures of variance analysis showed that dialectical behavioral therapy had an effect on emotional regulation and marital conflicts. And leads to improved emotional reactions and reduced marital conflicts in women with borderline personality disorder in Isfahan (p-value<0.001). Conclusions: The effect of this treatment on emotional regulation and marital conflicts of women with borderline personality disorder was stable. As a result, dialectical behavioral therapy as a therapeutic approach is recommended to improve the psychological status of women with borderline personality disorder symptoms

Electronic Journal of Theoretical Physics Modified Moyal-Weyl Star product in a Curved Non Commutative space-time

Abstract: To generate gravitational terms in a curved noncommutative space-time, new Moyal-Weyl star product as well as Weyl ordering are defined. As an example, a complex scalar mass term action is considered