Journal of Family Research
Year:2011 | Volume:7 | Issue:1 (25)|Papers Count:7

Living with children with Attention Deficit/Hyperactive Disorder makes special problems and needs for their mothers. This study evaluates mothers’ experiences in living with children with ADHD. This is a qualitative study with a phenomenological approach.Through a convenient sampling, a purposeful sample was selected from Shams Family Counseling Center in Tabriz. The sample consisted of 10 mothers that were interviewed through in-depth interview sessions. The participants’ answers were recorded, coded, and organized. The data was analyzed using the seven-step method defined by the Colaizzi method. Findings were summarized in four core concepts namely "family disorderliness", "social worries", "educational worries" and "mothers’  negative experienced senses") as well as several sub-concepts. The findings can contribute to the future plans for improving support resources and therapy strategies for providing the mothers’ mental health.

The birth of a hearing-impaired child is an unexpected and stressful event for family. Then family will face many stresses and psychological problems may arise. The aim of this study is to reduce the stress of families of hearing-impaired children by means of a stress management program. The main goal of the program was to promote knowledge and skills of parents during six sessions of education. Subjects were 33 mothers of preschool hearing-impaired children.A semi-experimental design with a pre-test, post-test design without control group was used. SCL-90 and GHQ questionnaires were administered for the subjects. Data were analyzed by means of paired t-test before and after training sessions. Findings showed a significant reduction of psychological problems in mothers after participating in the stress management program. Regarding the importance of mothers' roles in the rehabilitation of hearing-impaired children, it is necessary to prepare educational programs for them and reduce mothers' stress by supporting them.

The purpose of this study, as a national research, was to investigate the effects of the parents’ relational and supervision behavior on the academic achievement and social adjustment of their university student chil-dren.2636 individuals, including 1318 undergraduate, unmarried students from Shahid Beheshti, Tabriz, Isfahan, Gilan and ShahreKord universities (421 underachieved, 411 with good achievement who were matched with the underachieved group, 237 maladjusted and 245 with no problem in their adjustment and/or achievement who were matched with the maladjusted group), and 1318 responded pa-rents (mother or father) were selected through systemic sampling method. Both members of the family (student and his/her parent) separately completed a questionnaire about quality and quantity of the students’ relationships with their family and also the parents’ supervision beliefs and behavior. The results revealed that the maladjusted and underachieved groups have significantly lower mean scores on the “Quantity of Relationships”, “Quality of relationships”, Supervision Behavior”, and “Need for Supervision” scales, all of them as viewed by both the young adult children and parents, than the good-achievement and no-problem groups. The role of the quality of parent-child relationships and amount of parental control on the mental health, academic achievement and adjustment of the university students via increasing their motivations as well as their self-efficacy is discussed.

The Purpose of this study is to compare the efficiency of cognitive behavior group therapy incorporating with religious advices with that of classic cognitive behavior group therapy on the quality of marital relationship in w o men a sample of 33 women who were recruited through clinical practices of psychotherapists was selected by means of on-hand-sampling and randomly assigned to intervention and control groups. One of the intervention groups received 8 sessions of CBRA techniques and the other received 8 sessions of ICBT techniques. Patients were assessed repeatedly through self report measures, including quality of Marital Relationship Inventory and Attitude Religious Inventory.Result indicate that CBRA group proved to be more significantly more efficient on the quality of marital relationship than the CBT control group (p<0/0001). There were significant differences between groups in the style of communicative subscale in the quality of marital relationship questionnaire (p<0/0001), but on the other subscale there were no significant differences (p>0/05).

The aim of this research is to study the effect of happiness training on the couples’ life quality in counseling center in Isfahan city. The method of the present research is empirical.20 couples were selected out of the pcouples who voluntarily came to the counceling centers; they were classified into two groups using random sampling (one control group and one experimental group).The treatment given to the experimental group was carried out by the researcher. the instrument used in this study was the Oxford happiness questionnaire (1989) and the life quality questionnaire adopted from the shortened form of global health organization (1994). The collected data was then analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics.The comparison made between the post-test scores for life quality test and covariance analysis of life quality test showed that there is significant difference between the experimental and control groups in all of the subscales. Generally, the results of this study showed that happiness training will increase the couples’ life quality.

The aim of this study, as an ex post facto descriptive study, was investingating personality disorders of involved in domestic abuse in the city of Tabriz. One hundred men (50 men with wife abuse history and 50 men with no history of wife abuse) participated in this study through convenient sampling and completed the Millon Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI-III).MANOVA was used in order to com-pare the mean scores of two groups in the subscales of MCMI-III. The results showed that there are significant differences between the mean scores of two groups in the subscales of avoidant personality, depressive personality, and dependent personality from clinical personality pattern subscale, the mean of men wife abuse/non-wife abuse scores in subscales of schizotypal personality, paranoid from sever clinical personality pattern sub-scale, the mean of men wife abuse/non wife abuse scores in subscales of dysthymia, drug dependence, post traumatic stress from clinical syndrome subscale, the mean of men wife abuse/non-wife abuse scores in subscales of thought disorder, major depression disorder, and delusional disorder from sever clinical syndrome subscale. With regard to higher mean of the wife-abuse men in most of the subscales, results and implications are discussed.

This study investigates the reliability, validity and factor structure of the conflict tactic scale. A Sample of 395 (206 female, 189 male) were chosen from different region of Tehran by multistage cluster sampling. The CTS2 was used as instrument.Result showed CTS2 had acceptable convergent and divergent validity in com-paring with its subscales.Exploratory factor analysis revealed three factor solutions were labeled physical assault, psychologicalaggression, and negotiation was the best solution for the Iranian sample. CTS2 and its subscales had good internal consistency (Chronbach’s a=.66 to.86). This study showed CTS2 has appropriate validity and reliability for Iranian sample and is an efficient tool for research and couple counseling.