Comparing the Efficacy of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy with Prolonged Exposure Therapy on the Trauma impact symptoms in Veterans Suffering from Chronic PTSD

Abstract Background and aim: Post-traumatic stress disorder is considered as set of symptoms developed afterward an individual witness, hear or involved. The current research was purposed to compare the efficacy of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy with prolonged exposure therapy on the trauma impact symptoms in veterans suffering from chronic PTSD. Methods: in this clinical trail research randomly sampled 48 veterans diagnosed with PTSD who had psychiatric records in Salman City Hospital of Yasuj. The subjects devoted in three equal groups: two experimental and one control groups. As intervention procedures the two experimental groups were exposed to eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy (5 sessions) and prolonged exposure therapy (10 sessions) respectively. The control group received none. Subsequent to the treatment period the triple groups were post-tested by the prior pre test scales. The data were analyzed by implementing univariate analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) and Bonferroni post hoc test. Results: Both treatment procedures significantly reduced the trauma impact symptoms (p ≤0/001).The results also indicated that prolonged exposure therapy was more effective concerning the trauma impact symptoms improvement. Conclusion: Intervention treatment procedures such as eye movement desensitization, reprocessing therapy, and prolonged exposure therapy sustain sufficient efficacy in trauma impact symptoms improvement while prolonged exposure therapy exceeded significantly. Key words: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Eye Movement, Desensitization, Reprocessing, Prolonged Exposure Therap

Comparison of General Health, Job Stress, and Burnout among Ordinary and Mental-retarded-student Schools’ Teachers

The purpose of this study is comparison of general health, job stress, and burnout among ordinary and mental-retarded-students primary schools’ teachers in Khuzestan province. 125 mental-retarded-student teachers were selected by multistage random method. Also, 125 ordinary-student teachers were selected from the same area which mental-retarded-student teachers were chosen. Data gathering tools were general health questionnaire (GHQ), job stress generators questionnaire for teachers (JSQT), Maslach burnout inventory (BMI) questionnaire. For data anal-ysis, descriptive statistics methods (mean, standard deviation), and de-ductive methods (multi-variable variance analysis) were applied. Analysis results showed that mental-retarded-student teachers have worse general health in comparison with ordinary-student teachers. Also, findings indicated that there was no meaningful difference in job stress between the two groups of teacher. But burnout in all dimensions (emotional analysis, depersonalization, and lack of individual success) was more observed in mental-retarded-student teachers in comparison with ordi-nary-student teachers