JOURNAL OF FAMILY COUNSELING & PSYCHOTHERAPY
Year:2016 | Volume:6 | Issue:1 (21) |Papers Count:7

The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of sexual skills education on sexual attitude and knowledge in married women. The study adopted a semi-experimental design with pretest-posttest with control group. Statistical population included all married women referred to counseling centers and mental health in Uremia City in 2016. Thirty-six participants were randomly selected and divided into experimental (n=18) and control (n=18) groups. The Sexual Attitude and Knowledge scale used to collect the required data. After implementing the pretest, the experimental group received sexual skills education program for 1 hour in 8 sessions, once a week. After the training, the posttest repeated for two groups, and data analyzed by using the covariance analysis. Results show that the mean difference between the two groups in Sexual Attitude and Sexual Knowledge on the post-test and follow-up test (P<0.01). Based on the results of the study, it concluded that sexual skills education could significantly enhance the sexual knowledge and attitude in married women. With the rapid increase in the number of married women, sexual skills education is highly recommended.

The main objective of this research was to identify parental styles on internet use by their children and its relationships with relevant variables in order to provide counseling services to help family’s metal health. Using cluster and convenient sampling, we collected data from 370 parents in different cities of Kurdistan. The main tool for collecting data was a researcher-made questionnaire, which was relied on previous research, used standardized scales. The results showed that the parents mainly used parental styles such as Authoritarian and Permissive styles with more emphasis on warmth and communication. Thus, they tried to guide and help their children how to use internet. Controlling for some variables, we found that parents with higher education, governmental jobs, and those who had preventing attitude toward internet, mainly had parental warmth in their styles. Among different variables, only parents’ computer skills could predict the parental styles. Parents in Kurdistan found to have warmth parental style and this was related to different variables.

One of the most important specifications of marital relationships is cycles and communicational patterns, which emerge among them and may be fixing by repetition. The purpose of this study is to study the “demand– withdraw pattern” which is one of the most prevalent dysfunctional marital communicational patterns and to identify the factors which effect it. The method of present investigation is qualitative study (analysis the texts and interview) the results showed that the factors which effect on the demand– withdraw cycle include internal factors, relational factors, and situational factors. With regard to the results, it revealed that the factors which effects on the demand– withdraw cycle are wide and varied and they have multiple dimensions.

The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of family resiliency training on mental health of mothers whose children was suffered from mental disability in Susa city. This experimental study was pretest-posttest with a control group. Statistical society of this study was mothers who referred to rehabilitation center in the city of Susa in 2015-2016. The sample consisted of 30 mothers who were selected among volunteers and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. Mothers in experimental group participated in 9 resiliency training center. At the end, both groups were assessed by posttest. Measurement instrument was Goldberg mental health questionnaire. The results showed that compared with the control group, family resiliency education, mental health and its three dimensions: anxiety, physical dysfunction reduced depression but it had no significant impact in reducing social dysfunction. The results of covariance analysis showed that family resilience training has an impact on the mental health of mothers (p< 0.05) and can improve their mental health.

The aim of this study was to investigation the effectiveness of premarital education Program Based on Premarital Interpersonal Choices and Knowledge (PICK) program on reducing the Relationship Beliefs in students of universities of Ahwaz city. This research was an expanded quasi-experimental design with pretest-posttest and Follow up with the control group. From this population 38 volunteer students were selected on the basis of 1 standard deviation above the mean of relationship beliefs inventory, and the criteria for inclusion and exclusion and were assigned randomly to a treatment group (n=19) and a control group (n=19). The participants completed the relationship beliefs inventory (RBI) in three stages (pre-test, post-test, and follow-up after 45 days). The experimental group was given a PICK program of 9 sessions, twice a week for 90 minutes. The results of analysis of covariance showed that PICK training has led to a reduction in dysfunctional relationship beliefs of students (Disagreement is destructive, partners cannot change, mind reading is expected, sexual perfectionism and the sexes are different) in the experimental group than the control group at posttest and follow-up. Based on the findings, we can conclude that premarital education, premarital interpersonal choices and knowledge (PICK) programs is a suitable method for reducing the dysfunctional relationship beliefs singles in before marriage.

This research aims to determine the Effect of group counseling based on Satir communication approach on quality of life, marital confliction, and satisfaction in women in the exchanging marriage, flee marriage and normality marriage. This semi-experimental research contains a pretest, posttest with ever three groups. The statistical population were woman in the exchanging marriage, flee marriage and normality marriage. The sample contains 15 women in each group. The data gathered by sf 36 and enrich scale and Marital Conflict Questionnaire Revised (MCQ-R) questionnaire. Women in the each group were under 10 sessions by group counseling based on Satir communication approach. The research questionnaires data were analyze by using the covariance analysis method provided by SPSS 19 software for statistical analysis. In this research, The effect of group counseling on Satir communication approach on quality of life was not statistically meaningful, but The effect of this therapy on marital satisfaction and marital confliction was statistically meaningful.

A Long-term satisfied marriage provides a lot of positive outcome for mental, physical health and growth for the family members. The aim of this study was to present a model of the effective factors in long-term satisfied marriage. This study was done with qualitative research and grounded theory method. Purposeful sampling used to collect the data. Sampling continued until we get to theoretical saturation. So totally 20 couples with long-term satisfied marriages (20 years and upper) interviewed in semi structured and in-depth method and analyzed using the constant comparative method. Findings indicated that a journey to growing marriage we the core category of the study. Proper marriage selection category was the causal condition of divorce. This category consisted of initial love, proper independence, proper preparation, sufficient dating before marriage. Intervening conditions were divided into three categories of Intra personal factors (functional attitudes and personality characteristics), inter personal factors (functional marital, parental and family of origin system) and Meta personal factors (financial issues). Couples (like forgiveness, problem solving, apologizing, humor style) and family of origins functional strategies (mediating the problem) in difficulties of life and conflicts were explained. Finally Consequences consisted of satisfaction with self, spouse, children and long-term marriage that was considered 20 years and above in this study. This can be conclude that reaching to a growing marriage is not an onset event, but it is a process that couples can get that by passing the vicissitudes of life. Like a journey, it has its own beauties and difficulties. Those marriages reach to the growing marriages that provided by right elements and strategies.