APPLIED COUNSELING
Year:2013 | Volume:3 | Issue:2|Papers Count:6

The relationship between parents is an important factor in misbehaviors of children. Is there a relationship between parental conflicts and school performance of children? Are parent-child relationship, antisocial behavior and withdrawal/depression related with school performance? In response to these questions a model was tested to study the causal relationships of covert and overt inter-parental conflicts with school performance, mediated by parent-child relationship, antisocial behavior and depression of high school first graders in Dezful. The sample consisted of 200 students selected through multi-stage random sampling. In this research, the students completed, the Inter-Parental Conflict (IPC), the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) and the Parent-Child Relationship (PCRS) questionnaires. The school performance was measured by the grade point average of students. The fitness of the proposed model was examined through structural equation modeling. All of the paths, except parent-child relationship to withdrawal/depression, antisocial behavior to academic performance and withdrawal/depression to school performance, were significant. The indirect relationships were tested by using bootstrap procedure. The findings indicated that the proposed model fitted the data. The results also showed that the multiple indirect paths from overt inter-parental conflict to academic performance, mediated by parent-child relationship, and antisocial behavior were significant. Also, the multiple indirect paths from covert inter-parental path to academic performance, mediated by parent-child relationship and withdrawal/depression, and the indirect path from parent-child relationship to academic performance, mediated by antisocial behavior and withdrawal/depression were significant. In total, 60 percent of the variance of academic performance was explained by the proposed variables in the model.

The aim of the present research is to determine the effects of communication skills training on reducing marital conflicts. Statistical population consisted of all couples referring to a private counseling center in Astara in 2012.The research sample consisted of 28 participants selected through simple random sampling and randomly assigned to two equal experimental and control groups. The Marital Conflicts Questionnaire provided by Baratee & Sanaee was administered to subjects in both groups. After the pre-test was administered to both groups, the couples in the experimental group were trained during 10 ninety-minute sessions while intervention was made with the control group. After the completion of the training program, the post-test was administered to both groups. Findings of the covariance analysis showed that group training in communication skills did have a significant impact on reducing marital conflicts and its components in the couples (P<0.001).

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of emotion-focused training in emotional regulation of emotionally abused students. The statistical population of this study consisted of all male students of junior high schools in Ardebil in the academic year of 1390-1391. The subjects consisted of 100 emotionally abused students identified through clinical interviews. From among these, 40 were selected using a simple random sampling method. They were divided into two groups of control and experimental (20 each). The experimental group received the emotion-focused group training during 8 ninety-minute sessions. For data collection the Structured Clinical Interview, the Child Abuse Questionnaire (CAQ), and the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies Scale were used. The results of MANOVA showed that the treatment was effective in emotional regulation of students in the experimental group.

The present study aimed at investigating the impact of training in transactional analysis on psychological well-being and self-knowledge of married women in Tehran. Participants were 30 married women randomly selected from among all counseling seeking married women referring to Tehran’s counseling centers in 2012. They were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. Training sessions were carried out in 10 successive two-hour sessions. Before and after the program, the Ryff’s Psychological Well-being, and the Self-knowledge Questionnaires were administered to the subjects in both groups. Results of post-test and follow up analysis showed that training in transactional analysis did increase the psychological well-being and self-knowledge and all other subscales in women (p<.001).

The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of the Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples (EFTC) in improving marital satisfaction and Family Behavior Control. This research was a experimental study comprising sixty people (30 couples, N=60) who were selected through of convenient sampling. The subjects were randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups (15 couples each). All participants completed the Enrich Questionnaire and the Family Assessment Device (FAD). The therapeutic program was carried out in 8 two hour successive weekly sessions for the experimental group. The results of the covariance showed a significant difference between the experimental and control groups in control of family behavior and marital satisfaction. It can be concluded that training in emotion management strategies had helped the couples to improve their communication patterns and marital satisfaction as well as control of family behavior. Hence, emotion management plays a main role in improving satisfaction of couples and control of family behavior.

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between work engagement, self-efficacy for work/family conflict management, family and work support with job burnout among administrative office personnel’s in Ahvaz. The sample consisted of 180 administrative office personnel's selected through random cluster sampling method. The participants completed five questionnaires (Self-Efficacy for Work/Family Conflict Management Scale, Family support, work support, job burnout and work engagement Scale). The results of this study indicated that there was a significantly negative relationship between self-efficacy for work/family conflict management, work engagement, family support and job burnout. Stepwise regression analysis showed that self-efficacy for work/family conflict management, and work engagement could predict job burnout. There was no significant relationship between work support in work and family duty and family support in work duty and job burnout.