Islamic Journal of Women and the Family
Year:2018 | Volume:6 | Issue:12|Papers Count:6

The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of transdiagnostic treatment based on the emotional adjustment by a religious-spiritual design on reducing the symptoms and improving the general function of the women with anxiety disorders. This study applied a single-subject research using multiple-baseline design with a follow-up. Through a structured clinical interview based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) and the purposive sampling, 3 women with anxiety disorders were selected. The analysis was done by the Beck's anxiety inventory, the occupational-social adjustment scale in the baseline stage, the intervention sessions, and the 1-month and 3-month follow-ups. The interventions were individually done during 12 weekly sessions. The data were analyzed by the visual inspection, reliable change index, recovery rate, and effect size. The results demonstrated that there was a decline in the anxiety symptoms and a considerable improvement in general function among 3 women. The same results were seen in the 1-month and 3-month follow-ups. Statistically, the effect size and general recovery rate of treatment were significantly calculated. According to the results, the transdiagnostic treatment based on the emotional adjustment by a religious-spiritual design is an effective transdiagnostic intervention for reducing the symptoms and improving the general function of the women with anxiety disorders.

The resilience can increase the flexibility and empowerment of family in the face of disastrous situations of life. This research was conducted with the purpose of comparing the emotionally focused couple therapy and re-decision therapy and of examining their effectiveness on increasing the resilience dimensions among married women. The research applied a quasi-experimental method and pretest-posttest design with a control group and follow-up test. The sample included 30 married women selected by the convenience sampling among the women who referred to the counseling centers of Gorgan city because of their marital conflicts in a 6 month period. In the pretest and posttest stages, the data were gathered by the questionnaire of family resilience and they were analyzed by the multivariate analysis of covariance with the help of SPSS v. 21 software. The findings showed that the emotionally focused couple therapy and re-decision therapy significantly have effect on the married women's resilience (P<0. 001). In addition, the results showed that the re-decision therapy has more effect on increasing the women's resilience than the emotionally focused couple therapy.

The spouse's marital infidelity has different mental-spiritual effects which are not equally perceived and experienced by all victims and their spiritual reactions may be either positive or negative. The aim of this study, which was a phenomenological research, was to identify the spiritual-religious reactions of woman victims of marital infidelity. By the purposive sampling and doing semi-structured interviews to reach saturation stage, 18 woman victims living in the city of Tehran, Shemiranat Area, were selected as the sample. The findings were analyzed by theme analysis and finally 2 main themes, 8 subsidiary themes, and 21 elementary concepts were extracted. Based on the results, the main categories and sub-categories of reactions of woman victims of marital infidelity are as follows: spiritual flourish with the subsidiary themes including tendency to religious beliefs, attachment to God, trusting in God, and patience; and spiritual separation with the subsidiary themes including separation of religious emotions, separation of religious behaviors, and being lost. These results can be explained by the internal-external religious orientation theory and confrontation theory. These findings resulted from a native qualitative research can play a main role in more accurate identification and formulation of intervention packages for improving the mental-spiritual health of victims of marital infidelity.

One of the most important issues in the Quran is to pay attention to the Ahl al-Bayt's personality and position. Hazrat Zahra, who is one of the family of the Prophet Mohammad, has a special position among the scholars studying the Quran because of her important personality traits. In this research, first, the Alusi's opinions about the Hazrat Zahra's personality from the viewpoint of the Quran, in the book of Interpretation of Rouh al-Ma'ani, were reviewed. After that, the Quranic verses related to the Hazrat Zahra's personality were extracted. Then, the gathered data were analyzed by an analytical-descriptive method. The references, studied in this research, were between the years 1402 and 1434 AH. The researcher did not find the same study after seeking papers and articles in journals and scientific databases. In this research, the researcher concluded that Alusi became confused in imagining the Hazrat Zahra's personality. In the interpretation of some verses, he introduced Hazrat Zahra as a virtuous woman in the form of words such as "a respectable woman", "a companion to the Prophet Mohammad on the Day of Mobaheleh", and "the supreme woman of the world". In interpretation of some other verses, he introduced her as both a guilty woman and a woman demanding wrong things. In addition, Alusi, sometimes, was in doubt about the Hazrat Zahra's personality. Meanwhile, he did not say anything (negative or positive) about the most verses related to Hazrat Zahra.

One of the most important issues in modern societies is to keep the family and various aspects of preserving the formation and stabilization of family have always been considered in different parts of authority including legislation, execution, and law. One of the most important aspects that can play a main role in keeping the family is employment. There should be arrangements in the legislation and policies related to the employment, status of family, stabilization of family, and being family-oriented in the area of legal and legislative systems of the countries' employment. This study applied a descriptive-analytical method to investigate the status of family in the employment laws. The results demonstrated that, nowadays, most governments have identified the importance of creating family-oriented arrangements that are accessible to all employees in their policy-making related to employment. In addition, the Islamic Republic of Iran, following the Sharia, has given lots of importance to the family and reproduction, and has paid attention to the family-oriented policy-making related to employment; although the implementation of these policies is faced with many executive and legal obstacles.

The present research employed a descriptive-analytical method to investigate the jurisprudential rule of maintaining relations with relatives and its psychological functions; thus, the Quranic verses, narratives, and Shiite scholars' views, related to maintaining relations with relatives, were reviewed. To make the view of Islam on maintaining relations with relatives obvious, understanding the importance and practicality of maintaining relations with relatives and its psychological functions were explained; therefore, maintaining relations with relatives were discussed in two sections: in first section, following topics were explained: breaking relations with relatives is forbidden, the lowest level of maintaining relations with relatives, which is maintaining relations with all relatives (even non-Harbi unbelievers, debauchees, and Nasebi enemies) is obligated, and giving financial gifts to relatives and even other people is recommended. In second section, the psychological functions of maintaining relations with relatives were reviewed. According to the results, the most psychological functions of maintaining relations with relatives, as a divine duty, are as follows: mental relaxation, feeling of safety, satisfaction of emotional needs, satisfaction of the need for love, belonging to a group, self-expression and sense of being valuable, flourishing talents through simulation and modeling, education and observation of family and social norms, facilitating the process of socialization, and treatment of social anxiety.