Department of Psychology

The Department of Psychology is a well-known department in this field in Iran. As an important program in the higher education system, the Bachelor’s Program in psychology aims to introduce students with the theoretical as well as practical issues and principles in psychology and also research methods in this field. At the end of this program, the students are expected to achieve the minimum professional skills of psychology widely used in our country.

The Department of Psychology offers majors Clinical Psychology, General Psychology, Cognitive Science and Consultancy (Family) in its Master's program. The majors offered for Ph.D. candidates are: Consultancy and Psychology. More

Head of the Department of Psychology
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Mohaamad Javad Asgari Ebrahimabad
Assistant Professor
Department of Clinical Psychology
mjasghari@um.ac.ir
+985138803647

Concentration areas offered by the Department of Psychology
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Academic staff

Shahrbanoo Aali
Assistant Professor
Mohammad Saeid Abdekhodaei
Associate Professor
Hamidreza Aghamohammadian Sharbaf
Professor
Mohaamad Javad Asgari Ebrahimabad
Associate Professor
Imanollah Bigdeli
Professor
Ali Ghanaei Chamanabad
Associate Professor
Bhram Ali Ghanbary Hashemabady
Professor
Seyed Ruhollah Hosseini
Assistant Professor
Zahra Maleki
Assistant Professor
Ali Mashhadi
Professor
Majid Moeenizadeh
Assistant Professor
Kazem Rasoolzadeh Tabatabaei
Associate Professor
Javad Salehi Fadardi
Professor
Hossein Shareh
Associate Professor
Zahra Tabibi
Associate Professor

Research

Recent books


Recent journal articles

Tabibi, Z., David Schweble, & Zolfaghari, H. (2022). Road-Crossing Behavior in Complex Traffic Situations: A Comparison of Children With and Without ADHD. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 53 (6), 1186-1193.
Mashhadi, A., Maleki, Z., Rasoolzadeh Tabatabaei, K. (2022). Psychometric properties of the childhood executive functioning inventory (CHEXI): A confirmatory factor analysis and measurement invariance by sex and age in Iranian children. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 33 (3), 409-427.
Mohammad Reza Raftar Aliabadi, & Shareh, H. (2022). Mindfulness-based schema therapy and forgiveness therapy among women affected by infidelity: A randomized clinical trial. Psychotherapy Research, 32 (1), 91-103.
Mojtaba Habibi Asgarabad, Hosseini, S., Pardis Salehi Yegaei, Shahram Moradi, & Paul H. Lysaker (2022). Psychopathology and Poor Clinical Insight in Psychotic Patients. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 210 (7), 532-540.
Farhad Kahrazehi, & Mashhadi, A. (2022). Impaired set-shifting ability in patients with bulimia nervosa: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Fundamentals of Mental Health, 24 (1), 3-10.
Roghieh Nooripour, Mazloomzadeh, M., Shirkhani, M., Nikzad Ghanbari, Tabassom Saeid Par Var, & Hosseini, S. (2022). Can We Predict Dissociative Experiences Based on Inner Speech in Nonclinical Population by Mediating Role of Sleep Disturbance?. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 210 (8), 607-612.
Mehdi Mikani, Rasoolzadeh Tabatabaei, K., & Parviz Azadfallah (2022). Who would Iranian Muslims help? Religious dimensions and moral foundations as predictors. Archive for the Psychology of Religion, 44 (1), 23-39.
Shima Rahmani, Mohaddese Mohsenpour, Fatemeh Haresabadi, Farnoosh Azinfar, Erfan Nazemi, Zahra Mohammadi, & Mashhadi, A. (2022). The Study of Relationship between Moral Intelligence and Happiness in Rehabilitation Students. Scientific Journal of Medical Sciences, 1 (3), 113-118.
Salehi, M., Ghaderi, A., Habibe Hashemisima, & Zohreh Zahedi (2022). The relationship between different types of leadership, client’s identity, and self-confidence and auditors’ impartiality. TQM Journal, 0 (0), 10-15.
Salehi, M., Grzegorz Zimon, Ghaderi, A., & Zinab Ahmed Hasan (2022). The Relationship between Prevention and Panic from COVID-19, Ethical Principles, Life Expectancy, Anxiety, Depression and Stress. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19 (10), 1-24.
Mohagheghtoosi, F., Aghamohammadian Sharbaf, H., Mehdi Fathi, & Kareshki, H. (2022). The effectiveness of cognitive developmental hypnotherapy on differentiation of self, meaning in life and marital conflicts in married women. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 64 (3), 248-262.
Shirkhani, M., Aghamohammadian Sharbaf, H., & Moeenizadeh, M. (2022). Rooyesh Psychological Journal. , (), -.
Ghanbary Hashemabady, B., Zamani Tavoussi, A., Mazloomzadeh, M., & Kazemi, S. (2022). The relationship between self-efficacy and life satisfaction: Mediating role of emotion dysregulation. Journal of Fundamentals of Mental Health, 24 (4), 231-240.
Seyyedmoharrami, I., Ghanbary Hashemabady, B., Asgari Ebrahimabad, M., & Anahita Zandi (2022). Comparing the effect of solution-focused therapy and structural family therapy on marital satisfaction and family function in married women. Social Determinants of Health, 8 (1), 1-9.
Bondar Kakhki, Z., Mashhadi, A., Amin Yazdi, S., & Shirin Saleh (2022). The effect of Mindful Parenting Training on Parent–Child Interactions, Parenting Stress, and Cognitive Emotion Regulation in Mothers of Preschool Children. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 31 (11), 3113-3124.
Mohamadi Ferizi, M., Aali, S., Bigdeli, I., Fariborz Rezaeitalab, & Moradi Tavalaei, A. (2022). COVID-19 Pandemic and the Mental Health of Caregivers of the Elderly With Chronic Diseases. Iranian Rehabilitation Journal, 20 (2), 225-236.
Shirkhani, M., Aali, S., Maryam Khoshkhui, & Rafizadeh , G. (2022). Quality of Life, Psychological State, and Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies in Allergic Rhinitis Patients vs Healthy Population: A Comparative Study. Journal of Practice in Clinical Psychology, 10 (2), 121-130.
Amir-reza Bakhshandeh-sajjad, Aali, S., Bahareh Rajabi-gol, & Amir-hossein Hamedani (2022). The Mediating Emotion Dysregulation in Relationship between Mindfulness and Body Image Concern among Female Students. International Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 16 (1), 36-42.
Azaddisfani, Z., Kareshki, H., Amin Yazdi, S., & Abdekhodaei, M. (2022). Electronic Social Networks and Social Constructive Learning: Designing and Verifying the Application of Virtual Social Networks in Collegiate face to face Education. Iranian Evolutionary and Educational Psychology, 4 (3), 1-15.
Mohammad Amin Saraei, Andrew B. Newberg, Hosseini, S., Tahereh Bayati, & Seyed Amir Hossein Batouli (2022). Comparing the three states of Dhikr, meditation, and thinking about God: an fMRI study. Religion, Brain and Behavior, 12 (1), 1-13.
Hosseini, S., Saffar Tabbassi, S., Mosaferi, S., Mousavi Nejad, S., Roghieh Nooripour, Firoozabadi, A., & Nikzad Ghanbari (2022). The Persian version of the Psychotic-Like Experiences Questionnaire for Children (PLEQ-C): Psychometric properties in Iranian school students. Psychology in the Schools, 59 (10), 1-16.
Tavaloli, T., Kimiaei, S., & Aghamohammadian Sharbaf, H. (2022). The Effectiveness of Marriage Enrichment Training of TIME Plan on Improving Marital Intimacy and Women’s Psychological Security. Journal of Practice in Clinical Psychology, 10 (3), 259-274.
Nikzad Ghanbari, Roghieh Nooripour, Firoozabadi, A., Tabassom Saeid Par Var, Pamela Wisniewski, & Hosseini, S. (2022). Psychometric assessment of Persian translation of Yale Food Addiction Scale Version 2.0 (YFAS 2.0) in Iranian college students. Journal of Eating Disorders, 10 (1), -.
Mazloomzadeh, M., Mashhadi, A., & Hosseini, S. (2022). Prediction of death anxiety through fear of COVID-19, neuroticism, behavioral inhibition system and uncertainty intolerance. Journal of Fundamentals of Mental Health, 24 (6), 371-381.
Faezeh Rohani, Kamrad Khoshhal Roudposhti, Taheri, H., Mashhadi, A., & Andreas Mueller (2022). Exploring Effective Features in ADHD Diagnosis among Children through EEG/Evoked Potentials using Machine Learning Techniques. Journal of Computer and Knowledge Engineering, (), -.
Mohamadi Ferizi, M., Aali, S., Bigdeli, I., Fariborz Rezaeitalab, & Moradi Tavalaei, A. (2022). COVID-19 Pandemic and Caregiving of Old Adults with Chronic Nervous System Disease. Iranian Journal of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, 16 (2), -.
Nasiri, F., Kristen K. Ellard, Mashhadi, A., Bigdeli, I., & Ghanaei Chamanabad, A. (2022). Augmenting the unified protocol with transcranial direct current stimulation: Effects on emotion regulation and executive dysfunction. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 30 (2), 446-457.

Recent theses and dissertations

Kazemi, Z. (2022). The effectiveness of response inhibition computer-based training on inhibitory control and aggression in preschool children. , ( Clinical Psychology). Faculty of Education and Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Badiee Golmakani, M. (2022). The Effectiveness of Mindful Self-Compassion Training on Emotional Schemas, Meta-Emotion and Interpersonal Problems in female Students.. , ( Clinical Psychology). Faculty of Education and Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Rajabigol, B. (2022). The Effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy on Cognitive Flexibility, Self-efficacy and Emotional Regulation of Perfectionist Students with Academic Achievement. , ( Clinical Psychology). Faculty of Education and Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Haidarzadeh, S. (2022). The Living Experience of Afghan Immigrant Spouses and the Causes of Their Spousal Child: Emphasizing Physical and Sexual Violence and Its PTSD. , ( Clinical Psychology). Faculty of Education and Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Sharifi, K. (2022). Explanation the causes of impulsivity and criminal behaviors of male prisoners in the west of the country: designing an intervention to reduce it. , ( Clinical Psychology). Faculty of Education and Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Seyghalzanan Mashhadi, N. (2022). The effectiveness of integrated schema and mindfulness group therapy on emotional dysregulation, experiential avoidance and self-compassion on women with interpersonal problems. , ( Clinical Psychology). Faculty of Education and Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Mohamadzadeh Kosari, E. (2022). Investigating the Relationship between Metacognitive Awareness and Psychological Hardiness with the Mediation role of Psychological Flexibility in Secondary School Students. , (Master's thesis of Clinical Psychology). Faculty of Education and Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Taji, F. (2022). Investigating effectiveness of Computerized Cognitive Training on the Performance of Visual Spatial Working Memory and Visual Selective Attention women with Gender Dysphoria and Comparing with Women and Men without. , (Master's thesis of Clinical Psychology). Faculty of Education and Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Shamsaei, M. (2022). Pain Perception in Migraine and Tension-type Headaches: The Role of Executive Functions. , (Master's thesis of Clinical Psychology). Faculty of Education and Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Mahmoodi, S. (2022). The prevalence of tension-type headache in adolescents aged 15-18 years in Mashhad: The role of cognitive control and emotion regulation strategies. , (Master's thesis of Clinical Psychology). Faculty of Education and Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Mirabi, H. (2022). Relationship between personality functioning levels and potential capacity for child abuse in mothers of infants with infantile colic: The mediating role of positive and negative metaemotion and emotion regulation. , (Master's thesis of Clinical Psychology). Faculty of Education and Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Behrooznia, S. (2022). Examining the psychological experiences of female university faculty members during the Corona era. , (Master's thesis of Clinical Psychology). Faculty of Education and Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Shid Anbarani, B. (2022). Investigating the Causes of Substance Use Relapse in Women: Developing a Treatment Model to Reduce it. , (Master's thesis of Clinical Psychology). Faculty of Education and Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Hasanzadeh, M. (2022). The Effectiveness of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Improving cognitive inhibition and declining food craving in food addiction. , (Master's thesis of Clinical Psychology). Faculty of Education and Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Sajjadi, S. (2022). The Mediating Role of Strength and Difficulties of Adopted Children in The Relationship between Attachment and Parenting Styles of Adoptive Mothers with Their Attitude towards Adoption. , (Master's thesis of Clinical Psychology). Faculty of Education and Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Borzooei Niat, E. (2022). Transdiagnostic Modeling of Shame Dysregulation in Emotional Problems: Designing and Feasibility of a Shame Regulation Intervention. , (Master's thesis of Clinical Psychology). Faculty of Education and Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Jafari, E. (2022). Effectiveness of marital relationship enrichment on marital conflict and incompatible couples' communication patterns. , (Master's thesis of Clinical Psychology). Faculty of Education and Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Fayaz Parsa, Z. (2022). The role of schema mindset in the intergenerational transfer of early maladaptive schemas of mother and child and the formation of criminal thinking patterns in students. , (Master's thesis of Clinical Psychology). Faculty of Education and Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Mousavi, S. (2022). The effectiveness of compassion-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy on self-critical, intolerance of uncertainty, and obsessive-compulsive syndrome in housewives. , (Master's thesis of Clinical Psychology). Faculty of Education and Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Shoghi, M. (2022). Comparison of neuropsychological functioning and functional connectivity of the fronto-parietal network in patients with schizophrenia and their unaffected first-degree relatives. , (Master's thesis of Clinical Psychology). Faculty of Education and Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Froozan, B. (2022). Prevalence of Psychotic like- Experiences and its Prediction based on Cognitive Distortion and Emotion Regulation in Normal Adult Papulation. , (Master's thesis of Clinical Psychology). Faculty of Education and Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Etezadijam, R. (2022). Effectiveness of Emotional Focused Therapy on Emotional Regulation and General Anxiety of Nurses. , (Master's thesis of Clinical Psychology). Faculty of Education and Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Ghane, M. (2022). Comparing the effectiveness of group couple therapy training based on modern reality therapy with positive couple therapy on marital satisfaction. , (Master's thesis of Clinical Psychology). Faculty of Education and Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Attarzade, M. (2022). The Effects of Trait Anxiety on the Effort-Based Decision Making. , (Master's thesis of Clinical Psychology). Faculty of Education and Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Naeij, A. (2022). Investigating relationship between schema modes and social anxiety: Mediating role of Emotion dysregulation. , (Master's thesis of Clinical Psychology). Faculty of Education and Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Akhlaqi Amiri, N. (2022). Effectiveness of Existential Group Therapy on Modulating Attachment Style and Relational Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms. , (Master's thesis of Clinical Psychology). Faculty of Education and Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Madhkhan, N. (2022). Prediction of children's internalization and externalization problems based on mother's parenting stress with the mediation role of parental reflective functioning. , (Master's thesis of Clinical Psychology). Faculty of Education and Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Malmir, R. (2022). Investigating the Effects of Different Kind of Group Settings (command-control vs shared leadership) on the Sense of Agency Through the Moderating role of Moral Development. , (Master's thesis of Clinical Psychology). Faculty of Education and Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Hosseini Fandokht, S. (2022). The effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy based on mindfulness on emotional regulation, rumination and cognitive distortions of people with depressive symptoms. , (Master's thesis of Clinical Psychology). Faculty of Education and Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Hoshmand, A. (2022). The relationship between brain-behavioral systems and addictive behaviors among women: the mediating role of self-differentiation and psychological hardiness. , (Master's thesis of Clinical Psychology). Faculty of Education and Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Tajammolian, M. (2022). Investigating the Psychometric properties (Factor Structure and Reliability) of the Revised Childrens Communication Checklist-2 (CCC-R). , (Master's thesis of Clinical Psychology). Faculty of Education and Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Saberitj, H. (2022). Evaluation of cognitive-behavioral processes and symptoms of ADHD disorder and comparison of phase synchronization in the DMN network in adults with procrastination. , (Master's thesis of Clinical Psychology). Faculty of Education and Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Shughir, M. (2022). Comparison of corona anxiety level and the type of defense styles deployment between two groups by receiving the corona vaccine and without it.. , (Master's thesis of Clinical Psychology). Faculty of Education and Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Hassanzadeh Naeini, A. (2022). Investigating the relationship between early maladaptive schemas and body image: the mediating role of emotional regulation and self-compassion. , (Master's thesis of Clinical Psychology). Faculty of Education and Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Pourmohammad Shandiz, Z. (2022). The effectiveness of cathodal direct cranial electrical stimulation -tDCS- based on brain mapping in the right anterior insular region and cognitive-behavioral therapy based on deconditioning in reducing the symptoms of misophonia disorder and improving coping style. , (Doctoral dissertation of Clinical Psychology). Faculty of Education and Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Momeniyan, V. (2022). Evaluation The combined effect of two methods of mindfulness and direct transcranial electrical stimulation -tDCS- intervention on anxiety and affective response to intentional rumination. , (Doctoral dissertation of Clinical Psychology). Faculty of Education and Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Najafi, E. (2022). Comparison of emotion regulation and self-concept clarity and dimensions of emerging adults in dependent, independent and boomerang condition. , (Doctoral dissertation of Clinical Psychology). Faculty of Education and Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.

Contact Information

Iran, Mashhad, Azadi Square, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

Faculty of Education and Psychology, Department of Psychology

Phone: +985138803646-3647

Fax: +985138807137