Journal of Family Research
Year:2019 | Volume:15 | Issue:58 |Papers Count:9

The aim pf this study was to compare the effect of the premarital preparation program based on Olson’ s model and domestic premarital counseling package on couples’ problems during engagement period. This quasi-experimental study was performed using pretest, posttest and follow-up design with a control group. The statistical sample consisted of 45 couples during their engagement period in Yazd. They were selected by a purposeful sampling method and were assigned randomly into two experimental groups and one control group (15 couples each). All groups completed the Couples Problems Questionnaire during the pre-test, post-test and follow-up stages. Then, the difference between groups were compared by analysis of variance with repeated measures and a post hoc test. The results showed that the mean score of problems during engagement time in both experimental groups decreased significantly in post-test and follow-up phases (p<0. 0005), but there was no significant difference between the two experimental groups (p>0. 05). The findings of this study confirm the effectiveness of both the prem-arital preparation program based on Olson’ s Model and the domestic premarital package on reducing couples’ problem during engagement period.

The hidden relationships outside the marital relationship, called "marital infidelity", are associated with severe psychological damage in the betrayed person. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of group therapy based on performance art on improving emotional regulation and reducing symptoms of post-traumatic stress in women affected by wife's infidelity. The research design of this study was pre-test-post-test quasiexperimental method with control group model design. 30 betrayed women in Tehran were selected by convenient sampling method and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups (15 individuals in each group). While the experimental group received the group therapy based on performance art for 16 hours in two consecutive days (eight hours per day), the control group did not receive any intervention. All participants completed the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire designed by Garnefski et al (2002) and Post-Traumatic Stress Questionnaire designed by Fua et al (1997) in the pretest, post-test and one month follow up period. The results of variance analysis show that comparing to the control group, women in the experimental group had significantly higher scores in emotional regulation and lower scores in post-traumatic stress symptoms in post-test and follow up stages. The creative dimensions of the group therapy based on performance art provides a fertile ground for healing of affective and emotional damages caused by infidelity in betrayed women, since it creates a group environment which facilitates the process of empathy, collaboration, and sharing of personal problems.

issue of meeting children is important and in addition to parents, states also play a role. In fact, children, due to their low age, need special protection to enforce their rights. Therefore, in situations where the course of life of children is affected by events such as parental divorce, displacement or immigration, it is very important for them to communicate with their parents and relatives. Since 1959 and since the adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of the Child, there have been several international and regional human rights instruments to support the rights of the child. However, children are faced with the challenge of visitation in many cases due to parents' selfishness and failing to to carry out their duties or due to the negligence of states in protecting the rights of children. Although visitation of children is not considered as a duty, it is considered as a right for parents and children and affects various children's rights such as health and identity rights.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating role of parentification in the relationship between boundary ambi-guity with family support, family satisfaction, and perceived stress in adolescent girls in divorce families. For this purpose, 159 Girls from 12 to 16 years old were selected through voluntary sampling and they answered the boundary ambiguity scale, parentification scale, multidimensional perceived social support, multidimensional student's life satisfaction scale, and perceived stress scale. Path analysis was used to analyze the data. The results of this analysis confirmed the intermediation role of parentification in the relationship of boundary ambiguity with family satisfaction and perceived stress. But this role was not significant in the relationship of boundary ambiguity with family support. Therefore, it can be concluded that if the ambiguity in family boundaries does not disappear after parental divorce, parentification as a result of boundary ambiguity results in reducing family support and increasing perceived stress in adolescent girls, it also plays a mediating role in the relationship among boundary ambiguity, family satisfaction and perceived stress.

Only child is one of the growing forms of Iranian families and it is important to examine the dimensions and special issues related to it. The purpose of this study is to provide a deep understanding of only child adolescents’ experience of interaction with parents. The method of this qualitative research is a phenomenological type. For this purpose, 18 only child adolescents were selected by voluntary purposeful sampling method and were interviewed by a semi-structured interviews. The interviews were written and documented word-by-word. Finally, the data were analyzed by a thematic analysis method and six main themes were extracted: attention and care, dependency, concern, loneliness, responsibility, and communication triangle. According to the findings of this study, although only-children experience intimacy and friendly relationship with parents and receive more attention and facilities, they suffer a lot of pressure on the various aspects of interaction with parents. Therefore, modifying interactive patterns and awaring parents can be effective in preventing negative outcomes. Given that the findings were derived from an indigenous research, they can be used effectively in developing educational packages for these families.

Parent-mediated interventions are considered as an effective intervention to treat children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Most of these interventions focus on the Social-communicative Deficits (SD) and ignore Behavioral Excesses (BE). To address this need, a Family based Program for Managing Autistic Behavioral Excesses (FPMABE[0]) was developed. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of this program on three parents of children with ASD. This study was a single-subject design and was performed on three children with ASD aged 2 to 3 years old. Parents of these children received 10 individual sessions of FPMABE. 9 stages of evaluation were performed (3 evaluations in baseline, 5 evaluations during treatment and one evaluation in follow up). The instruments used in this study were the Repetitive Behavior Scale-Revise (RBS), Autism Treatment Evaluation Checklist and The Aberrant Behavior Checklist. To analyze data, visual analysis and effect size were used. The results of the study showed that BE such as stereotyped behaviors (d= 82%), selfinjury (d= 100%), compulsive behaviors (d= 85%), rituals (d= 85%), sameness (d= 100%), restricted behaviors (d= 83%), irritability (d= 79%), echolalia (d= 84%) and hyperactivity (d= 26%) decreased. At the same time, SD (such as Speech/communication, Sociability) improved without any intervention on behavioral deficits. Since, the results of this study support the effectiveness of the FPMABE, it is recommended to use this program as an early intervention for the treatment of children with ASD even prior to treatment of SD to take advantage of family-based programs.

he purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between social support on one hand, and resiliency and social anxiety and psychological distress in mothers of children with special needs on the other. The research method applied in terms of purpose and method is a descriptive correlation type. The statistical population of the study included all mothers of children with special needs in Khalil Abad city of Kashmar in 2018-19. Measurement tools included the Social Support Questionnaire, resilience, social anxiety and psychological distress. Data were analyzed using Pearson Correlation Coefficient and path analysis. The results showed that there was a significant positive the correlation between resilience and social support and social anxiety and psychological distress in the mothers of the children with special needs. Also, the results showed that social support consists of 47% resilience and resiliency, 39% social anxiety and 21% helplessness.