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
Areas Bachelor's Master's Ph.D
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Clinical 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

Hosseini, S., Sepehr Maghsoudi, Firoozabadi, A., Nikzad, & Maryam Shamsaei (2025). Psychometric properties of the Iranian version of the dissociative experiences measure, Oxford (DEMO). BMC Psychiatry, 25 (1), -.
Maleki, Z. (2025). Measuring the Occupational Stress in Pre-service Early Childhood Teachers: A Psychometric Examination of the Persian Version of Work-related Behaviour Patterns (PAVEM). , 14 (2), 27-44.
Mashhadi, A. (2025). Effectiveness of Emotional Schema Therapy on Anxiety Symptoms, Emotion Regulation, and Marital Satisfaction in Women with Anxiety Disorders: A Preliminary Study. International Journal of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, 18 (2), 334-358.
Pourmohammad Shandiz, Z., Aghamohammadian Sharbaf, H., Abdekhodaei, M., & Hosseini, S. (2025). The effectiveness of cathodal (tDCS) in right insulla region and cognitive-behavioral thrapy in misophonia disorder. Journal of Advanced Pharmacy Education and Research, 14 (51), 11-17.
Mashhadi, A. (2025). Designing a conceptual model of forming the psychological resilience among farmers living in drought-affected regions in Iran: a grounded theory study. Current Psychology, 44 (10), 9053-9064.
Mashhadi, A. (2025). Design and determination of the psychometric properties of a fear of childbirth tool for Iranian adolescent mothers: An exploratory sequential mixed method study protocol. PLOS One, 20 (4), e0320616-14.
Mashhadi, A. (2025). Investigating the conceptual model of the formation of psychological resilience in farmers affected by droughts in Iran using structural equation modeling. BMC Public Health, 25 (1), -.
Sedaghat Baghbani, B., Aghamohammadian Sharbaf, H. (2025). The effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral hypnotherapy on dysmenorrhea, premenstrual syndrome and affective control. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 67 (2), 175-186.
Maleki, Z., Moradi, M., & Mosaferi, S. (2025). نارسایی کنش‌های ارایی و مشکلات سلامت روان در دانشویان: یک تحلیل همبستگی کانونی. Recent Innovations in Psychology, (), -.
Rezaee, A., Hosseini, S., & Firoozabadi, A. (2025). Prevalence of psychotic-like experiences among Afghan migrant children and adolescents: examining the predictive role of childhood trauma, mindfulness, and cognitive flexibility. BMC Psychiatry, 25 (1), -.
Khosh Niyat, N., Ghanbary Hashemabady, B. (2025). Comparing the effectiveness of gratitude intervention and behavioral activation technique in breast cancer patients: a randomized trial. BMC Cancer, 25 (1), -.
Karami, M., Firoozabadi, A., & Khosravipoor, Z. (2025). Efficacy of 4C/ID and the variability of learning tasks on teachers' personal initiative. Interactive Learning Environments, (), -.
Motamed, H., Rasoolzadeh Tabatabaei, K., & Aghamohammadian Sharbaf, H. (2025). The relationship between schema modes and problematic pornography use in youth: the mediating role of emotional dysregulation. Psychology and Sexuality, 16 (4), 1246-1257.
(2025). Comparing the level of social maturity, attachment styles, and emotion regulation strategies in normal adolescents and adolescents accused of sexual offenses crimes referred to the Forensic Medicine Department of Khorasan Razavi Province. Journal of Fundamentals of Mental Health, 28 (4), 1-10.
Kasaeyan, Y., Kimiaei, S., & Teimourzadeh, F. (2025). The Effectiveness of Building a Lasting Connection (BLC) Premarital Program on Marital Engagement, Emotional Security and Literacy of Couples during Marriage: quasi-experiment with a control group. Journal of Family Relations Studies, 6 (4), 1-10.
Rezaee, A., Aghamohammadian Sharbaf, H., Asgari Ebrahimabad, M., & Rasoolzadeh Tabatabaei, K. (2025). Investigating the Effectiveness of the Educational Package for Modifying Self-destructive Behavior Patterns in Afghan Students. , (), -.
Farrokhi, H., Bigdeli, I., Mashhadi, A., & Hosseini, S. (2025). From Childhood Trauma to Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Behavior: The Roles of Negative Valence, Social Processes, and Cognitive Systems Based on the Research Domain Criteria Framework. Health and Development Journal, 14 (1), 1-7.
Farzamkia, S., Hosseini, S., & Abdekhodaei, M. (2025). Examining the Effectiveness of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Selective Attention in Patients with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. International Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 19 (3), 147-153.

Recent theses and dissertations


Contact Information

Iran, Mashhad, Azadi Square, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

Faculty of Education and Psychology, Department of Psychology

Phone: +985138803646-3647

Fax: +985138807137