COUNSELING RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Year:2018 | Volume:16 | Issue:64 |Papers Count:12

Aim: The aim of the present study was carried out in order to investigation of effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy on acceptance and growth after break up in female students with break-up experience in girl students who have already experienced break up atuniversitys of Ahwaz. Method: In this research, a non-congruent experimental single case multiple baseline was used. The population is consisted of the girl students studying in the university, who experienced an emotional break up at least within 3 months to a year ago. The samples were selected as targeted sampling. The sample includes three girl students who got a score higher than 20 on Love Trauma Syndrome Inventory. the subjects answered the Admission and Action Questionnaire(Bond & et al, 2011) and Post-traumatic Development and Growth Questionnaire (Tedeschi & Calhoun, 1996) before, during and end of treatment and one month after the last treatment. The data was analyzed as visual, improvement percentage, and Reliable Change Index (RCI). Finding: The results showed that acceptance and commitment therapy increase acceptance and growth after break up in female students with break-up experience. Conclusion: According to this findings it can be concluded that acceptance and commitment therapy has significant effect to increase the acceptance and growth after break up.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to develop an integrated model of self-actualization based on humanistic theories to resolve problems in previous classifications. Methods: The research method is qualitative with the statistical population of humanistic psychology texts including "Motivation and Personality" (Maslow, 1970), "The Farther Reaches of Human Nature" (Maslow, 1971), "Religions, Values and Peak Experiences" (Maslow, 1970b), "Self-Actualization and Beyond" (Maslow, 1965); "On Becoming a Person" (Rogers, 1961); "Man’ s Search for Meaning" (Frankl, 1984), "The Will to Meaning" (Frankl, 1988); "Pattern and Growth in Personality" (Allport, 1961) and "Becoming" (Allport, 1955). Thematic analysis was applied to analyse data. After reviewing the texts and coding of the concepts, the themes were identified, classified and named. Results: Analysis of the Humanistic Psychologists texts was conducted to four main themes including eighteen subthemes. The findings show that self-actualization has four " transcendental self", "aware self", "creative self" and "social self" factors. Conclusion: According to the model achieved in this Study, developing a scale to measure self-actualization based on this integrated model, would reduce the effect of definition differences on self-actualization scores in various cultures.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral based sexual skills education on marital adjustment in infertile women. Method: This was a quasi-experimental study with pretest-posttest design with control group. Infertile women aged 22 to 36 years old referred to motazedi infertility center in 1394 in kermanshah, who had Sexual dysfunction and marital problems. There were 33 participants in the study, 20 of them were volunteers. They were randomly divided into two groups (10 people) and control (10 people). Individuals who participated in the experimental group participated in group sex education for 10 sessions per week. The control group did not receive any intervention during this period. In order to record changes in spanier marital adjustment questionnaire (1976) before and after the intervention, participants completed the statistical analysis of multivariate covariance analysis. Results: Sexual Skills Education intervention had a significant effect on marital adjustment, so marital adjustment score of infertile women in posttest was significantly increased (P <0. 001). Conclusion: Cognitive-Behavioral Based Sexual Skills Education is effective on marital adjustment of infertile women.

Aim: The purpose of this study is examination the relationship between locus of control, dark personality and marital violence. Method: The study is descriptive and correlational as well as structural equation modeling, which investigate the relationship between exogenous and endogenous latent structures in model. Population of this study included all divorced men and women that in the second half of 2015, refer to judicial centers in Isfahan. The sample consisted of 250 persons who were selected using purposeful sampling and 201 persons completed questionnaires. For collection of data, Rotter internal-external control scale, dark character scale (dark triad) DT and Conflict Tactics Scale-Revised (CTS-2) was used. Finding: Findings showed the direct and significant effect of the locus of control and the dark personality on marital violence. The findings also showed marital violence can be influenced by dark personality significantly and indirectly through the locus of control. Conclusion: The results of this study showed that the locus of control and dark personality could be a good predictor of marital violence.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of role playing games on the responsibility, career adaptability, and dysfunctional career thoughts of students in Isfahan city. Method: The statistical population included all male high school students in district 3 of Isfahan in the academic year of 93-92. The study was quasi-experimental design included a pre-test and post-test with a control group. The sample consisted of 88 volunteers who participated in the study. 44 patients in the experimental group and 44 in the control group, they were randomly assigned. The experimental group participated in 8 sessions of 75 minutes of role playing, each of which played a role. The data were collected using the responsibility subscale from the NEO Five-Factor Personality Inventory, the Career Adaptability Inventory and the Career Thoughts Inventory. To analyze the data, covariance analysis was used. Results: The results showed that there is a significant difference between the mean scores of the experimental group and the control group in the variables of responsibility, career adaptability, and dysfunctional career thoughts (p <0. 05). Conclution: Job role playing games can increase responsibility and career adaptability and reduce the dysfunctional career thoughts.

This study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of self-assertiveness oriented training on the self-esteem of adolescents of divorce in the city of Kerman in a pretest-posttest method with control group. The sample consisted of 30 adolescents of divorce in Kerman that were randomly selected and assigned to control group and experimental group. Each group included 15 people. The self-esteem of participants in this study was measured by Cooper Smith Self-esteem Questionnaire in the pre-test and post-test. The experimental group participated in 10 sessions of training self-assertiveness, while the control group did not receive any training. The implementation of covariance analysis on data showed that training sessions had a significant effect on the self-esteem of the experimental group (P<0. 05). Based on the results, it can be concluded that self-assertiveness oriented training can improve the self-esteem in adolescents of divorce.

One of organizational and interpersonal forms of severe abuses in today's corporate environments, organizational bullying. This familiar term in the behavioral, previously examined in the wider social environment, but cannot deny the importance of the environment today because organizations have received considerable attention. The purpose of this study is, The effect of organizational bullying with individual sleep quality with respect to a mediating role rumination among Hospital female nurses. Statistical population this study, Hospital female nurses Gorgan Sayyad Shirazi is that of a total of 220 female nurses who work in shifts: morning, afternoon and night working at the hospital, 141 were selected through Cochran formula the sample size. Research results showed that organizational bullying significant negative effect and on sleep duration and Sleep of Useful, and play a positive role in reducing the amount of sleep is female nurses (Sig =0. 05). Finally, with the arrival of mediator rumination, organizational bullying effect on sleep quality in order to strengthen further negative moderated, And was determined, emotional rumination, exacerbate effect bullying organization to reduce sleep quality. But Work-related rumination, can greatly affect the organization's bullying little effect on sleep quality and sleep quality further.