The Neuroscience Journal of Shefaye Khatam, 2014, Volume 2, No. 3, Suppl 1 Downloaded from shefayekhatam.ir at 8:01 +0330 on Sunday October 10th 2021 1 1 The Neuroscience Journal of Shefaye Khatam, 2014, Volume 2, No. 3, Suppl 1 The Neuroscience Journal of Shefaye Khatam Meeting Abstracts Open Access Abstract Book of the Second International Anxiety Congress 1-3 October, 2014, Tehran, Iran. Published: 1 Oct, 2014 These abstracts are available online at http://www.shefayeKhatam.ir/index.php?slc_lang=en&sid=1 Oral Presentations O1 organization by the parliament as the supreme legislative body in the country. On 14/11/2012 counseling centers Anxiety As a Global Problem regulation was introduced by the tenth government Ali Gorji1, 2 in executing the Act 43 of the Law, which was a big shock to the Organization, and the authority of issuing 1 Shefa Neuroscience Research Center, Khatam Alanbia counseling certificates was assigned to State Welfare Hospital, Tehran, Iran. Organization and Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. 2 Experimental Research Center, Münster, Germany. Fortunately, with a lot of consultations and followings, The Neuroscience Journal of Shefaye Khatam, 2014; 2(S1): O1 this regulation was abolished and the duty of issuing counseling certificates and supervising counseling Several investigations demonstrated that anxiety is centers was exclusively assigned to the Psychology the most common mental health disorder worldwide; and Counseling Organization. This, in turn, can lead affected about one in 13 people. Anxiety disorders are to a tremendous development and progress in the more commonly reported in Western societies but it is discipline. The other opportunity to the Organization is also a main health problem in non-Western countries as the declaration of health system policy by the Supreme stress and anxiety levels have drastically increased over Leader which has taken the society’s mental health the last two decades. Several wars in Middle Eastern indexes into account and demands the citizens’ mental, countries in the last few years seem to increase the rate social, and spiritual health. The other opportunity to the of anxiety dramatically in this area. Women, children, Organization is the Supreme Leader’s attitude toward and adolescents are the most vulnerable groups. The aim the Organization and psychology in general, and his Downloaded from shefayekhatam.ir at 8:01 +0330 on Sunday October 10th 2021 of our congress is to reduce the enormous individual and expectations from the Organization aired in the central social burdens imposed by anxiety disorders. Prevention council meeting on 9/5/2011. In the current situation, all of stress and anxiety as well as effective treatment of branches of psychology and counseling have committees different forms of anxiety based on the latest scientific and the improvement and growth of all branches achievements improves the public health. Drawing a have been planned. We are signing memorandum of clear plan to prevent and combat anxiety will be necessary understanding with all related bodies in the fields of before we face anxiety epidemics in different societies. psychology and counseling. Retraining all psychologists and counselors and updating their knowledge and O2 skills is intended. Psychotherapy and counseling with Reviewing the Opportunities and Threats to a religious orientation is one of the priorities of the Psychology and Counseling in Iran Organization. The biggest threat to psychology and counseling of the country is a decline in the quality of Abbasali Allahyari education in some universities, and the Organization Psychology and Counseling Organization of Iran, Tehran, Iran. intends to invalidate these low quality universities by a quality control evaluation and consolidate the discipline The Neuroscience Journal of Shefaye Khatam, 2014; 2(S1): O2 and psychologists’ position in the new health system program. Perhaps before establishing the Psychology and Counseling Organization of Iran by the Parliament in O3 2003, the biggest threat to this discipline was the practice of unprofessional people. On this basis, the biggest Anxiety Psychopathology-Epidemiology and opportunity for this discipline was establishing this Burden of Disease: Problems and Solutions 1 1 http://www.shefayekhatam.ir/index.php?slc_lang=en&sid=1 Norman Bradley Schmidt specific CBT. Finally, data from a large ongoing study (Study 3) examining the impact of Transdiagnostic CBT Anxiety and Behavioral Health Clinic, Department of on comorbid anxiety-depression will be presented. Psychology, Florida State University, Florida, USA. Future directions for the treatment of complex comorbid The Neuroscience Journal of Shefaye Khatam, 2014; 2(S1): O3 anxiety and anxiety-depression patients will be discussed. The goal of this talk will be to familiarize the audience with the nature and prevalence of anxiety disorders and O5 document their impact on society. Anxiety is the most Stigma in Psychiatric Disorders common form of psychopathology affecting an estimated one in four people at some point during their lifetimes. Ahmad Jalili In comparison to all types of diseases and injuries, a Representative President of Iranian Psychiatric Association, 2013 JAMA report indicated that anxiety disorders were Tehran, Iran. the fifth leading cause of years lived with a disability. Moreover, the impact of anxiety psychopathology The Neuroscience Journal of Shefaye Khatam, 2014; 2(S1): O5 on society has remained steady since 1990. These various anxiety manifestations, along with associated Social stigma is a major challenge among the patients conditions such as depression and substance use issues with mental illness, their families and the health care will be described. Finally, an overview of state-of-the- providers. Not only the patient with psychological art and first line, empirically supported prevention and disorders, but also who has an infectious disease suffer treatment efforts focused on ameliorating anxiety will social stigma. Stigma refers to an extreme and unusual be provided. disapproval of a person from the other members of society. Stigma is a Greek word that in its origins referred O4 to a type of marking or tattoo that was cut or burned into the skin of criminals, slaves, or traitors in order to Transdiagnostic CBT and Comorbidity in the visibly identify them as blemished or morally polluted Anxiety Disorders persons. Due to the stigma and its negative effect on the Peter Joseph Norton patient and his family, the treatment of the patients is also challenging. Although stigma arises from the other’s UH Anxiety Disorder Clinic, University of Houston, Houston, belief, but the worst part is the patient’s bad feeling about USA. himself. Most of the patients and their families avoid The Neuroscience Journal of Shefaye Khatam, 2014; 2(S1): O4 visiting a psychiatrist cause them to lose the golden time of the treatment, make their illness chronic which end to Recent research from a number of clinical trials has shown disability. Lack of knowledge about the mental illnesses that Transdiagnostic Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy is has been always the most important origin of stigma. Up efficacious, having shown comparable effects on primary to the 19th century, psychosis has been the only well- Downloaded from shefayekhatam.ir at 8:01 +0330 on Sunday October 10th 2021 anxiety disorder diagnoses as traditional diagnosis- known type mental illness and there was no concept specific CBT, and highly economical for treatment about the other psychological disorders such as spasm, providers. However, a majority of anxiety disorder depression and obsessive compulsive disorders which patients present with two or more “comorbid” diagnoses are usually concomitant with physical manifestations. at once. Given that Transdiagnostic CBT focuses on the Today, although the psychosis is a small portion of patient’s entire anxiety presentation, as opposed to just the mental illnesses, but it forms the major viewpoint one primary diagnosis, several psychological scientists of the people about psychological disorders. Despite have suggested that Transdiagnostic CBT may be more of modern treatment methods applied to even cure the efficient than traditional CBT in treating comorbid mental illnesses, the people hate to be called “mentally presentations (those with more than one anxiety disorder ill”. Today we recognized that mental disorders are a or depressive diagnosis). The current presentation brain disorder, and we refuted the ideas that psychosis will present data from a number of studies testing this is a curse from the gods and that people with epilepsy hypothesis. An initial pilot study (Study 1) evaluated the held prophetic powers. Although mental disorders effect of transdiagnostic CBT on comorbid diagnoses are very similar to the physical disorders in term of of depression, suggesting that patients who present pathophysiology, etiology, treatment and prevention, with both anxiety and depression show substantial but it is yet hard to accept them. Health system have a improvements on both diagnoses. Study 2 compared long way to overcome the big challenge of recognition, the effect of Transdiagnostic CBT on treating comorbid prevention and treatment of mental disorders and to diagnoses of anxiety (two or more anxiety disorders instruct the people about the nature of these disorders simultaneously), finding that Transdiagnostic CBT had which lead to a significant improvement in the health greater effects on comorbid anxiety