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 ** Key words: **// Psychological disorders, psychotherapy, schizophrenia, thought, mood and anxiety disorders, anti psychotic medications, robots //
 * Working title **: Psychotherapy Function of Robots on Improving Social Interactions of Schizophrenic Patients

||  1-What are the psychotherapy functions of social relationships in the lives of people with serious mental illnesses and their families? 2-How strength is the social network ties of family members of people with serious mental illnesses? 3-How strength is the social network of people with psychological disorders with their families? 4-What are individuals’ with mental illnesses and their family member’s perceptions of various personal losses due to mental illnesses? 5- Can development in science and technology help individuals with cognitive and social skills deficits because of their psychological disorders to overcome the difficulties of developing social relationships? 6- Can development in science and technology provide a tangible assistance and emotional support for the individuals with serious mental illnesses? 7- What are the effects of demographic characteristics of individuals with mental illnesses on psychotherapy? || 1-What are various treatment methods of schizophrenia? 2- Which method has had effective effect on treating schizophrenia? 3-Do schizophrenic people have any tendency to do psychotherapy treatments? 4- How are schizophrenic patients active in their social communications? 5-What are the main factors in intensifying or diminishing the social interactions of schizophrenic people? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">6-What are the reasons of abandoning a schizophrenic patient by families? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">7- In the absence of family support, could humanoid robots be a supportive assistant for psychotherapy measures? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">8-Can robots reduce the hallucination symptom of schizophrenia? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">9-Can robots reduce social isolation of schizophrenic people? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">10-How do robots produce social support in the personal network of schizophrenic patients and decrease the severity of psychological symptoms? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">11-Do robots can lessen the stress and negative impacts of social relationships of families who have schizophrenic member in their family? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">12- <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Do the psychotherapy functions of robots vary based on the demographic characteristics of schizophrenic people? Such as their age, gender and … <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">In the new post modern world which people are more involved in their professional life and less concerned with their relationships with their family members, having a schizophrenic relative is more troublesome for them. Considering this fact and on the other hand the importance of family and community support for schizophrenic people to overcome their social isolations, I think that robots can become a useful assistant for such people as I think this research will help socio robotic professionals to understand more about the effective roles of robots not only in the industry and society but also on the psychological disorders such as schizophrenia ,to know whether human robot interactions can help them to not become socially isolated anymore and to strengthen their social interactions. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">This research will also investigate that in the absence of family ties in the lives of schizophrenic patients to cope with mental illness, how robots can be successful in strengthening their social interactions. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Living for more than 5 years with my aunt who had schizophrenia and my unsuccessful struggle to help her to overcome her illness is my first primal motivation in doing such a research. After reading some articles on the future functions of robots on mental illnesses even marriage with robots till 2050, and the growth of humanoid robots which can talk, I realized that robots can help reducing social isolations of schizophrenic people. So with no knowledge and background on socio robotics and psychological disorder, I would suppose that by taking socio robotic and psychological classes, I can prepare myself in these fields. Also by reading the relative books and journals and participating appropriate conferences, I can improve my preparation in the future. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Successful treatment of schizophrenia no t only depends on taking medicines but also mostly on psychotherapy treatments. Treating schizophrenia lasts for entire life so persons who have this disorder have to take medicine for their entire life, which is in most occasions intolerable for them so they go off of their medications. So psychotherapy measures could be a best assistance for such people to confront more strongly with their disorder and its social effects on their life. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">One of the main factors in treating such as disorder is family or group support because of psychosis problems of this illness, people with schizophrenia have lost of difficulties in having communication in their social life. Unfortunately, the hardships of coping and having an appropriate behavior with such people are also overwhelming and difficult which has caused many families to give up their schizophrenic relatives. That would intensify the social isolation of schizophrenic people. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">We all have seen the successful role of robots in industry so I am sure that with the rapid growth of robots in the future, humanoid robots can be useful assistants in psychotherapy treatments of people with schizophrenia to help them, their <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> families and more importantly psychological communities who are responsible for psychotherapy of schizophrenic people .<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Human Robot Interactions, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Medicine (medical treatments of psychological illnesses), psychotherapy ( of schizophrenic patients) Engineering( robot studies ), Socio Robotic ( robots as the psychotherapist assistants for schizophrenia). || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Socio robotic groups at MIT, Yale University, Osaka University, iRobot corporation group, Korea Robotic Society(KRS), Robotic and Automation Society,  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Asian Psychological Association (APsyA), <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">IEEE, EU cognition organization, NARSAD National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, NSF <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">
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 * Interviewing with some (maybe 2) psychotherapists about schizophrenia disorder, its symptoms and possible treatment ways, Comparing the affectivity of psychotherapy and Antipsychotic medications, archival analysis of ideas of socio robotic professionals on strengthening human robot interactions and mental illnesses and doing some deep interview with them( maybe 2 or 3 socio robotic professional), Monitoring ,controlling and comparing the health situation and social interactions of patients with schizophrenia that robot is their assistant in their psychotherapy treatments and who do not use, interviewing with families who one of their family has schizophrenia and the involved doctors to understand the effects of using psychotherapist robots