COUNSELING RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Year:2010 | Volume:9 | Issue:35|Papers Count:8

The research has been aimed to suggest study factors related with observance professional ethics among counselors and Psychologists. The research was descriptive-correlative. 110 counselors and psychologists of governing were randomly selected as statistical samples. The data gathering was Counseling and Psychological Ethic Questionnaire. A research made questionnaire based on ethical criteria and issues in counseling and psychology. The results showed a relatin ship between practiced a significant ethical coads and age and fields of studies. Therefore the ethical issues are to be considered important on selection and trainings of counselors and psychologists.

To investigate the effect of community of inquiry method on developing self esteem, based on Lipman's theory, an experiment was designed and conducted in Tehran primary school students o third, fourth and fifth grades. 190 student (97 boys and 93 girls) randomly selected and assigned to experimental and control group (88 experimental, 102 control). The experimental group was taught based on community of inquiry method for twelve, ninety-minutes, sessions Cooper Smith test was used as an instrument of the study for collecting data about self esteem. Results show that means of boty experimental and control group on pre-test didn't have any significant difference. But, the results of pre-test and post-test of both experimental and control group indicated that the mean of post-test scores of experimental group in relation to pre-test in self esteem has increased, while the mean of control group hasn't difference in post-test, and the mean of experimental group in post-test is higher than the mean of control group. Besides, to investigate the persistence of treatment effect, the students were rechecked after 4 months. It has shown that the results were stable. Therefore, this semi-experimental study has shown that community of inquiry method has positively affected interpersonal relationship skills in experimental group and continues for 4 month.

The purpose of the present research was studying the effectiveness of Beck's cognitive therapy on increasing adjustment level among the students of Islamic Azad University, Islamshahr branch. The population of the research consisted of all the student's of Islamshahr branch. The sample consisted of 300 students selected through cluster random sampling method. Then 30 students with higher scores were randomly assigned to experimental (15 students) and control groups (15 students). Research method was experimental, using (pretest-posttest with control group). Cognitive therapy on experimental group was used for 8 sessions. Five hypotheses on effictiveness of cognitive therapy on increasing adjustment dimensions (health, family, social, emotional and educational adjustment) were to analyze the deta compraised differential means of experimental and control groups were compared. The finding indicate that cognitive therapy was effective for increasing adjustment to familiai, social, emotional and educational dimensions, but not in dimension of health.

The pupose of this study is evaluating the effectiveness of problem solving skill training on the family functions of mothers with ADHD children. The method of this study was quasi-experimental that used available sampling to recruit ADHD mothers (N=10), and a control group (N=12), who were matched for their age, sex and education, then divided randomly on experimental and control groups. Before and after the training, they completed the family assessment device (FAD). The Results show that family function o ADHD mothers was distorted and the problem solving skill training for ADHD mothers improved the whole family functin, especially, problem solving, parental roles, behavioral control and general functioning (p<0.05), but it had no effect on their communication effective support and responsiveness wihich indicate sensitivity and effects o multiple factors on family functions.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of group narrative therapy on decreasing symptoms of oppositional defiant disorder. Research sample were 30 male students from statistical population of fifth-grade male primary school students. Samples where selected from an available population. Research instruments was CSI-4. The instrument was administrated on the subjects. Experimental group took 15 narrative therapy session of 90 minutes in two months. The results of post-test covariance analysis showed that there was a significant difference between experimental group and control groups.

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the Correlation adaptation to college and social-emotional intelligence in university students. Another aim was to examine discriminatory power of sychological hardiness. 345 (195 female and 155 male) subjucts were selected randomly from Uromia University students. The Student Adaptation to college questionnaire (SACQ), and EQ-I. For analyzing the data hierarchical regression (step by step) were used. The rusults showed that social-emotional intelligence could adaptation to college and its components. In addition, psychological hardiness variable could anticipate meaningfully academic, social, personal-emotional adaptation.

This research investigated that correlation of couple's attachment and marital satisfaction in a sample of 182 undergraduate married couples. Each couple complete questionnaires of attachment style (AAQ) and marital satisfactin (Enrich Marital Satisfaction Scale). Results indicated that secure attached and ambivalent attached couples of both sexes had higher marital satisfaction than the avoidant couples. There is no meaningful difference between secure and ambivalent attached couples. Attachment styles of couple's cause different marital satisfaction level. Mixture of secure attached men and secure attached women have higher marital statisfaction than mixed avoidant attached men and avoidant women. Marital satisfaction for couples with isotope attachment not found different than couples with nonisotope attachment couples.