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Aim and Background: The purpose of this study was to investigate the efficacy of life skills training to reduce depressive symptoms in students of Piranshahr, Iran. Methods and Materials: A total number of 64 male high school students who scored 96-140 on children's depression scale were selected randomly from Piranshahr. The participants were randomly allocated into two groups of experimental and control. The experimental group attended 12 sessions of group life skills training. However, the control group received no intervention. Both groups completed children's depression scale before and after the intervention. Findings: The results of analysis of covariance showed that life skills training was effective in reducing depressive symptoms and significantly reduced social problems, and preoccupation with death and diseases. The treatment was however found to be ineffective in reducing affective responses and sense of guilt and improving self esteem and pleasure. Conclusions: According to our results, it appears that a complete treatment of depressive symptoms requires a more extensive training.

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Aim and Background: The prevalence of depression symptoms is increasing and has widespread destructive effects on individuals and the society. Identifying the risk and protective factors and understanding the process of developing depressive symptoms is essential for timely prevention and early intervention measures. The aim of this study was to investigate the moderating role of cognitive emotion regulation strategies in the relationship between stressful events and depression symptoms. Methods and Materials: The statistical population consisted of undergraduate students; from among them 357 individuals were selected using stratified random sampling method. The Life Experiences Survey (LES), Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ), and Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) were used for data collection. The hypothesis was tested using regression analysis. Findings: The results showed that adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies moderated the relationship between stressful events and depression symptoms. Conclusions: Individuals who use adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies to a greater extent after experincing stressful life events, show fewer depression symptoms. Conversely, individuals, who use these strategies to a lesser extent after stressful life events, show more depression symptoms. Accordingly, intervention and prevention programs for depression symptoms should have special attention to the education and promotion of adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies.

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Aim and Background: Depression, as the most serious disease of the century, whose underlying factors play an important role in its formation and continuation, requires the design of treatments that have lasting effects. Based on this, the present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the effectiveness of Analytical Schema Therapy (AST) in reducing depression symptoms and modulating early emotional needs
Methods and Materials: The current research was conducted as a semi-experimental type with a pre-test-post-test design and a control group with a three-month follow-up. The statistical population of this research was selected students of Tehran in 2020. The sample size included 24 people who were selected by a targeted method from among those who volunteered for treatment and were randomly assigned to two experimental (12 people) and control (12 people) groups. AST therapeutic intervention was performed for the experimental group during thirty sessions, one session of 60 minutes per week. People in the control group did not receive treatment at this time. The questionnaires used in this research included the Beck depression questionnaire (Beck, 1961) and the early emotional needs questionnaire (Ghaderi et al, 2021). The data obtained from this research were analyzed by the method of variance analysis with repeated measurement and using SPSS 25.0 software.
Findings: The results showed that AST treatment has a significant effect on reducing depression symptoms and modulating emotional needs (p<0.001).
Conclusions: According to the obtained results, it can be concluded that AST treatment, with the development of techniques aimed at adjusting emotional needs, can be used as an effective intervention to reduce depression symptoms and adjust early emotional needs.