M.A. Thesis:

The effect of education on family-centered attitude to addiction, compassion and irrational beliefs girl students of the junior high school has a parent addicted city of Sabzevar

The problem of addiction in Iran is considered as the most serious social harm in recent years. Unfortunately miss-consumption of the addictive drugs roots deeply in the family. This quasi-experimental study using pre-test and post test, was implemented in Sabzevar. The population of the study consisted of 5215 female junior high school students who were educating at school in 2015-2016.Two schools were randomly selected to choose sample students (the students whose parents were addicted. The executives of schools (principals, sub-principals and counselors) identified the sample students who were 36 students with addicted parents from two schools .The sample students were divided into two groups of 18 people for the experimental and control groups. The pretest (the scale of attitudes to Narcotics, self-pity questionnaire Neff, irrational thinking Jones) was implemented at the same time for both of the control and experimental groups. Then the family –based instruction program consisting of components of attitudes toward addiction, self compassion and irrational beliefs was performed in 10 sessions for the experimental group. The obtained data were analyzed by using the analysis of covariance. The findings of the study showed that family-centered instructions influenced the students' attitudes toward addiction, self-compassion and some other components of irrational beliefs.

Keywords: family- centered instruction, attitudes toward addiction, self- compassion, irrational b