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Behzad Chavooshi

‌Behzad Chavooshi (Persian: بهزاد چاوشی), born 1984 in Tehran, is an Iranian psychologist. He is a member of Iran’s National Elites Foundation. He is well known for his work on Diagnosing medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) in the emergency departments: MUS’s are symptoms that cannot be fully explained by medical diagnosis, injury, medication intake, drugs, or alcohol. Providing an emotion focused assessment service to explore emotional contributors to MUS is a culturally new concept within the traditional model of emergency medicine. He developed a multi-step approach to educate physicians and patients on how such a service might benefit them and their patients His work on how to detect whether emotional factors play a role in symptom formation, how to engage the patient in a non-threatening discussion of emotional factors of their symptomatology, and how to refer patients for assessment, including patients who initially felt threatened or dismissed by the referral.1

In addition to his magnificent research and clinical practice, his most important concern is to increase psychological knowledge of the people of his country, so on his official Instagram page (@dr.behzad.chavooshi), which has more than two million followers, He post various articles every day to take a step toward increasing people’s mental health, mostly in an understandable language that people in all stage of education will understand important terms and concepts in psychology. People love him for his sharp language he uses for transferring knowledge and answering questions.

Background[edit][edit]

Born in Tehran, chavooshi spent his earliest years  of bachelor in kharazmi university 2003 – 2008 . Later he completed master degree in psychology 2008 - 2010 University of Tehran, Iran, he graduated from the University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences with a Ph.D. Clinical Psychology 2010-2016.

References[edit][edit]

1.   Chavooshi B, Saberi M, Tavallaie A, Sahraei H. Psychotherapy for Medically Unexplained Pain: A randomized clinical trial comparing intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy and cognitive behavior therapy. Psychosomatics. 2017;58(5):506-518. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psym.2017.01.003 <br>