Journal of clinical psychology and counseling research
Year:2018 | Volume:8 | Issue:1 |Papers Count:10

Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of Satir Brief Family Therapy on the sense of coherence and cognitive emotion regulation of maladaptive couples in Ardabil Province. Method: The method of this study was quasi-experimental with pretest-posttest and control group. The research sample included 16 couples who referred to the well-being center of Ardabil and responded to researcher recall that were selected by volunteer sampling and randomly assigned into two groups, that is experimental and control groups. The group-based intervention was performed in the experimental group in 8 sessions. The instrument used in this study includes short-form questionnaire of a sense of coherence and short-form questionnaire of the cognitive emotion regulation to which the couples responded in the pretest and posttest. Data analyzed using analysis of multivariate variance. Findings: The results showed that there was a significant difference (p<0. 001) between the experimental and control groups in terms of sense of coherence and cognitive emotion regulation. So, Satir Brief Family Therapy increases couples sense of coherence and cognitive emotion regulation in the experimental group, compared with the control group.

Purpose: The purpose of present study was to investigate the relationship between spiritual intelligence, gratitude, organizational commitment and work engagement with organizational citizenship behavior. Method: The method of current research was descriptive-correlational. The sample included 195 employees of Shahid Chamran University that were selected through simple random sampling. The instruments of research included King's Spiritual Intelligence questionnaire (2008), McCullough, Emmanus, and Tsang's Gratitude questionnaire (2002), Moody, Steyrs, and Porter's Organizational Commitment questionnaire (1979), Scaffly and Becker's Work Engagement questionnaire (2001) and Organ and Konovsky's Organizational Citizenship Behavior questionnaire (1989). Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation and multivariate regression by the stepwise Method. Findings: Multiple correlation coefficient for Spiritual Intelligence, Appreciation, Work Engagement and Organizational Commitment's linear Combination with Organizational Citizenship Behavior was equal to MR=0. 450 and determination coefficient was equal to RS = 0. 203 which were significant at p > 0/001. Moreover, there was a positive and significant relationship between predictor variables and a criterion variable (p<0. 05).

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between psychological flexibility and psychological hardiness in Explaining Psychological Well-Being in the soldiers' military service training centers of Semnan air defense force. Method: The research of cross-correlation. The study population consisted of soldiers' training center in Semnan task of air defense duty martyrs. One hundred sixty-two (162) soldiers were selected by multistage cluster sampling and answered Cognitive Flexibility Inventory (CFI), Ahvaz Hardiness Inventory (AHI) and Reef Scale Psychological Well-Being (RSPWB). Findings: Results showed there was a significant relationship between psychological flexibility and psychological hardiness with well-being and between psychological flexibility and psychological hardiness is a significant relationship at 0/01 In addition, psychological hardiness can predict 51% of psychological well-being. The results demonstrate that the role of cognitive flexibility in psychological well-being is important.

Purpose: This study was conducted to investigate and compare the effectiveness of MCT (Metacognitive therapy) and couple therapy based on self-regulation on coping strategies and couple self-control. Method: This is a quasi-experimental study including a pretest, a posttest, and a follow-up conducted on two experimental groups and one control group. The research sample included 60 couples Referred counseling centers in Khorramabad County. For first experimental group training based on the self-regulation method, and for the second experimental group, MCT-based training conducted. The participants complete Lazarus and Folkman’ s Coping Strategies Questionnaire (CSQ) and Tanji’ s Self-Control questionnaire in three steps. Findings: The results of ANCOVA indicated that both methods, based on self-regulation and MCT, improved coping strategies and couple behavior control significantly. The self-regulation method had a greater and more long-lasting effect on the improvement in couple coping strategies. Likewise, the MCT method had greater impacts on couple effective control and self-control training. Moreover, changes in the one-month follow-up were persistent. Couple coping strategies can be improved by training in the MCT and self-regulation methods which can have positive effects on the mechanisms of behavior modification among couples. Therefore, these couples will be capable of controlling behavior and coping strategies.

Purpose: Shame is one of the strongest human emotions and a force with both constructive and destructive aspects and it has been among the most important forces which have caused human’ s survival. Shame does not allow human beings to behave in any way. If the shame is poisoned, it moves in the opposite direction of human health. The purpose of current research is to construct a test based on Bradshaw's approach. The test attempts to integrate different theories about the shame and to fit it with Iranian culture and societyMethod: Research population includes the students of Ferdowsi and Payam Noor universities of Mashhad. The sample size of 900 people was calculated for two universities. In this study, for the purpose of constructing a combined test, exploratory and sequential methods were used. Findings: The results indicate the content validity, construct validity in the form of factor validity, convergent validity (r=0. 02, p<0. 05), divergent validity (r=-0. 08, p<0. 05), differential validity (r=-0. 008, p<0. 05) and predictive criterion validity indexes (r= 0. 55, p<0. 001) and (r= 0. 52, p<0. 001). Test reliability was 0. 72 which was acceptable. Correlation method and LISREL software were used to analyze the findings. the validity and reliability of the research were acceptable. The results of factor analysis approve the Bradshaw's classification of the shame. Proposals have been presented in two research and treatment headlines.

Purpose: The Effectiveness of Learning Rhythmic Poems on the Performance of Children’ s Auditory-Verbal MemoryMethod: This is a randomized controlled trial study with the participation of 80 male and female students of the sixth grade of primary school (2015-2016) randomly divided into two 40-member groups of experiment and control. Students of the experimental group listened to recorded rhythmic poems of their books daily for 8 successive weeks. Before and after the intervention, the auditory– verbal memory of both groups was evaluated with the Rey Auditory – Verbal Learning Test, and data were analyzed using SPSS 21, the Mann-Whitney U test, paired t-test, and the Wilcoxon test. Findings: Students of 11-12 years of age range were selected equally in terms of gender. In the posttest, the mean score of total learning of auditory-verbal memory in the students of the experimental group (10. 6± 1. 54) was significantly higher than that of the control group (8. 40 ± 1. 68) (p = 0. 028). Also, in the posttest, the mean score of total learning, immediate recall, delayed recall, and recognition in the experimental group was significantly higher than the pretest (P> 0. 05).

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of group-based cognitive training based on assumptions and rules on the attitude toward the nonsense of life and hardiness of female households with low-quality life. Method: In a quasi-experimental and nonequivalent control group design, 30 women households respectively after initial screening By Target sampling assigned in two experimental (15) and control (15) groups. The experimental group received interventions for cognitive training based on assumptions and rules. The instruments that used in this study were personal views survey (hardiness), life regard index and quality of life survey. Data were analyzed by using analysis of covariance and t-test for the differential score. Findings: The t-test for the differential score showed that the mean difference in attitude to life and hardiness between the two groups is significant. Therefore, group-based cognitive training based on assumptions and rules has increased psychological hardiness and reduced the nonsense attitude to life in female households with low quality of life.

Purpose: The present study aimed at comparing the effectiveness of schema therapy and CBT on improving early maladaptive schemas in patients with nervous anorexia with weak mother bond. Method: The study had an experimental method with pretest-posttest design and follow-up with the control group. The study population included all patients aged 16 to 23 years with eating disorders who had referred to psychiatry and psychotherapy in clinical centers in Tehran. Purposive sampling was used in this study. Twenty-one (21) patients were diagnosed to have anorexia nervosa by performing the psychological screening. Finally, the selected patients were matched in two experimental groups and one control group. Data were collected through questionnaires and diagnostic interviews based on diagnostic criteria for eating disorders and psychiatric diagnosis. Two questionnaires were used in the study including 1. Parental Bonding Questionnaire 2. Young Schema Questionnaire. Findings: Patients in the area of disconnection and rejection, impaired autonomy and performance, Hypervigilance /inhibition, have the most damage. But, little damage to the other area, impaired limits, and other-directedness. The results also indicate that in improving schemas, schema therapy was more effective and more durable than cognitive and behavioral therapy.