en پژوهشي Original Research Articles <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Objectives:</strong> This study intended to examine the effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on moderating maladaptive schemas and affective control in students suffering from learning disabilities.</p> <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Methods:</strong> This experimental research was conducted using pretest-posttest and a control group. The population included all the female students who&nbsp; were studying in the Koohdasht&#39;s middle schools (academic year: 2012-2013). The sample included 40 female students suffering from learning disabilities who had been randomly selected out of Koohdasht&#39;s middle school students after identification and a structured clinical interview and&nbsp; they were put into experimental&nbsp; and control groups (20 students each group). For data collection, Affective Control Scale and Young Schema Questionnaire were used.</p> <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Results:</strong> The results of multivariate covariance analysis showed that mindfulness-based cognitive therapy has significantly decreased maladaptive schemas, depression, anxiety, and anger in subjects (P<0.001).</p> <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Discussion:</strong> This finding represents important implications regarding education and mental health improvement in exceptional students. Therefore, it is recommended to use this&nbsp; therapeutic&nbsp; package in schools and clinics as a supplement to other therapies in order to decrease negative emotions and to prevent formation of maladaptive schemas in these students.</p> Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, Maladaptive schemas, Affective control, Learning disability 77 83 http://irj.uswr.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-321-3&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Nasrollah Vaisi veisiy.1364@yahoo.com No Allameh Tabatabaii University, Tehran, Iran. Mohammad Rostami salarrostami@ymail.com Yes University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Zohreh Zangooei audio.zohreh@yahoo.com No University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Mohammad-Ali Khaksar-Beldachi khaksar56@yahoo.com No Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.