COUNSELING RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Year:2001 | Volume:2 | Issue:7-8|Papers Count:7

In this research, "family functioning" of two groups of dependent and independent female students are compared. Research sample (using cluster sampling) were 180 third grade, female, scondary school students. Research insruments were Family Assessment Device (FAD) and Interpersonal-Dependency Inventory (IDI). Major research hypothesis was that "family functioning" of dependent and independent students in FAD and in all its subtests are different. Results indicated that dependent students, in communication, affective involvement, general functioning subtests, and in the total questionnaire had a lower family functioning. Following are the results of the other ther three hypotheses of the research: 1) More dependent students had lower family functioning in roles, emotional resposiveness, affective involvement, behavior control, and general functioning sub tests as well as the total questionnaire; 2) students with lower self-esteem had lower family functioning in emotional responsiveness, affective involvement, general functioning subtests, and also in the total questinnnaire; 3) students with lower autonomous assertion indicated difference only in "behavior control"

The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of group counseling on Existential Crises of Adolescents in Shiraz in 2000. Two groups of 40 high school students were randomly selected as the experimental and control groups in this study. First, Inventory Existential Crisis (IEC) was administered to all subjects as the Pre-test. Then the Existential group received group counseling in 10 sessions (on session each week). After that IEC were administred again as the post-test to all subjects. The independent variables were group counseling; The depindent variable was IEC score. The controlled Variables consisted of existential crisis pretest elonomis status, Guidance school grade point average (GPA), and parents education. The result of Multivariate analysis of variance showed that the experimental group significantly scored lower than the control group on the ICE Post-test (P < 0.001). There was no significant difference between boys and girls with regard to ICE Post-test scores. None of the relationships between controlled variables and the ICE Post-test scores were significant.

This article is intended to introduce forgiveness as a tool or therapeutic Intervention. The authors, first, have tried to cite factors operating as obstacles to study forgiveness in family therapy. then, it has mentioned some research about forgiveness in different aspects. In continue, the concept of forgiveness and its definitions have been described briefly. also, the article has been come forth with the kind of forgiveness and its dimensions. after that, the authors have tried to presenting a model of forgiveness in therapeutic intervention settings, especially, in dyads of family, and a brief discussion and conclusion

The purpose of the present study is to investigate the satisfaction of clients of the counseling centers of Welfare Organization, their opinion about dimensions and edficiencies in the centers and give pieces of advice in order to promote their qualifications. The subjects were 898 men and women randomly selected from counseling centers of 27 provinces. The research tool is a questionnaire measuring the accessibility to counseling centers, awareness of types of services, and satisfaction of professional and non-professional services. Datas were analyzed using descriptive statistics. The results show that clients are satisfied with the accessibility to the centers. Most of them are not aware of group counseling and family education courses, and clients arc satisfied with the services given by counseling centers. Although there are limitations in counseling centers, however they could almost satisfy the clients needs.

This research with use of religious content in cognitive therapy protocols in group therapy framework has been adminstred. The research is a kind of semi experimental research with control group. The subjects of this research were male inpatients with mood disorder in psychiatric ward of the Noor Medical Center in Isfahan. During therapeutic period, groups consisted of 7 members were formed. By using B.D.I and S.A.S tests before and ofter the intervention, evalution ot the therapeutic method was done for experimental & control groups. Also drug therapies has participated in R.C.G.P. sessions. The results show that R.C.G.P. in compassion with control group has significant effect in decreasing depression (P < 0.05) and anxiety (P < 0.05) in inpatients with mood disorders