COUNSELING RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Year:2004 | Volume:3 | Issue:9-10|Papers Count:7

Establishment of psychoJogy and Counseling Organization ofIRI (PCO) and necessity of its planning and policy making in accordance with historical and global experiences was the impetus for writing this article. Main focus of the paper is a review of psychologists, and counselors, struggles for professional indentity and their achievements all over the world. Causes for development of credentialing organizaions, differences offour key concepts "certification" "license" and "accreditation", and issues related to each are explained. Credentialing is a genral concept. "Certificate" and "license" deal with individusls, qualificatios to be eligible for them, while "accreditation" has to do with higher education institutions involved in training psychologists and counselors. Establishment of right qualifiatons and conditions to award credentials to applicants and instiutions, as well as enforcing scientific and ethical practice are what PCO should do on its way to engineering and organizing psychology an counseling professions in Iran.

Helping addicts to discontinue of addiction, using psychotherapy methods is important not only detoxification stage but also after that at rehabilitation stage. The main aim of this study is to present as appropriate rehabilitation model based on cogintive-behavior therapy in order to be used in clinics; as well as to illustrate the extent of its efficiency discontinuance of addiction and rehabilitation of addicts. Data was collected using interview technique. Single-subject (AB type) research method was used to achieve the goals of study. The results indicate that the using of the cognitive-behavior psychotherapy methods at detoxificzation and rehabilitation stage has a high efficiency.

This research investigates the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioraJ and behavioral assertiveness training approaches on the assertive behavior of unassertive students. The subjects were ~v unassertive high school male students of Birjand city that were randomly selected. They were randomly placed in two experimental and one control group. They were tested with Watson & friend fear of negative evaluation scale and Gambrill & Richey assertion inventory (discomfort scale and response probability scale). Exprimental groups were treated with ,12hours assertion training (six 2 hour sessions)using behavioral and cognitive-behavioral procedures respectively. U sing the same tests no longer than end of the therapy and a month later, the second and third evaluations were conducted. And the results were analysed with MANOVA test and the follow-up test of LSD, using SPSS software. According to the research hypotheses assrtion training decreases subjects scores onthe post-test and follow-up test in the fear of negative evaluation scale and assertion inventory (discomfort scale and response probability scale). The results showed that except for the cases of fear of negative evaluation the differences between the two training groups and control group in discomfort scale and in response probability scale were significant (P There was a significant difference between behavioral and congnitive-behavioral groups only in subscale of response probibility in follow-up test.

The aim of this study was to factor analyze the BD! (Beck Depression Inventory) on third grade boys and girls Guidance schools in AHVAZ. 399 Guidance school students were selected randomly. Using a multi-phase method of anlysis of data showed that all of the items were significantly correlated with the total score of inventory. In addition, the test-retest reliability coeficients for total inventory was 0.81, and internal consistency was 0.88 for the whole sample, and,0.55 and 0.22 for girls and boys respectedly. The resultsalso showed that out of 399 studentes, 101 of them were diagnosed as depressed ones. Factor analysis of variance in this study indicated that there was no difference between Arab and Farsi language spoken students in terms of depression.

This study aims to investigate and comparison locus of control on marriage satisfaction between employed female teachers and housewives. The purpose of implemeting this study is investigating the effect of control on marriage satisfaction of female teachers and housewives and comparison of each of these variable between the two groups. Population of this study involves all the housewives living in Tehran. The number or the study sample were one hundred employed female teachers and one hundred housewives who were selected from the high school in the district No. 5 in Tehran. The data were collected using Ruter"s Locus of Control Questionnair and Enrich Marriage Satisfaction Questionnaire. Data analysis show that there is not a significant relationship between locus of control and marrige satisfaction amongs the study groups. On the other hand, the finding of this study show that there is a significant difference between the locus of control of female teachers and housewives and the finding revealed that housewives had external locus of contro I compared with femal teachers. finding also reveal that there is a significant relationship between the range of marrIage satisfaction of female teachers and housewives and housewives have marriage satisfaction. But there were not significant effect in other dimension like the effect of age, number of children, lenght of marrige, the amount of family income on marrige satisfaction.