COUNSELING RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Year:2005 | Volume:3 | Issue:12|Papers Count:8

This article contents concepts and areas related to "organizational counseling". The issues briefly include the following: "Employment counseling" which prepares people for career development, adjustment to jobs, and effective occupations. "Outplacement counseling" which helps those who voluntarily or involentaeerily give up their jobs. And finally, "Consultation" which is the process of interaction between consultant and conultee regarding organizational or vocational problems.

This research examined effectiveness program of family reconstruction in quality improvement of relationship between mother and daughter. Participators of this research were 12 youth girls (age average: 16.42) that their mother were the main guardianship of family and fathers due death or divorce and separation had no presence at home. These girls are under the coverage of Yas Social-Cultural Institution and their quality score for the relationship between mother and daughter was on the questionnaire of relation of between mother and child was lower than average (19.5). 6 Persons were considered as experimental group (were candidate for participation in family reconstruction) and 6 group. Reconstruction group was planned in 9 meeting. For analysis of obtained data from mentioned questionnaire in pre and pro tests, from (t test for independence groups). The researching assumption was confirmed. It means that family reconstruction has improved for quality of mother and daughter relationship

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effetiveness of educational group counseling on promoting academic skills and achievements of high school students. The hypotheses were: 1- the means of academic skilld scores in the experimental group that benefit from educational group counsening and control group were different. 2- the means of academic achievement scores in the experimental group that benefit from educational group counsening and control group were different. The subjects were 36 high school students that were randomly selected and distributed in experimentel and control groups. The educational group counseling were administrated in six sessions in experimental group. Then the subjects were examined by academic skill questionnaire and mean score in achievement tests. the results were analysied with covariance and manova using SPSS software. The results showed that educated group counseling have increased the academic skills (p = 0.003) and academic achierements of experimental group (p = 0.001)

The present research aims to study the relationship between emotional intelligence and time management whit high school teachers job stress. To access this goal 206 high school teachers selected randomly in yazd (128 male and 78 female). Measurement tools consisted of job stress questionnaire, Cyberia Shrink emotional intelligence questionnaire and finally time management questionnaire. The analysis of stepwise regression showed that emotional intelligence and time management significantly can predicate teachers job stress. Altogether those two variables explained %57 of job stress variance. Also the result indicated that emotional intelligence components, especially self-control, empathy and self-awareness have significant role in job stress prediction. Necessary to add that those components along with time management assigned %78 of job stress variance to themselves. Among these components, self-control has the most important role in explaining of job stress, and explaining %57 of job stress variance. After this factor, empathy has %13 of this variance and final roles devoted to self-awareness and time management which their significant effect in anticipating job stress is 2 and 3 percent.

One of the most common mental health problems in elder adults that reduces the quality of their lives and increases the probability of suicide and also costs of health care is depression. Those who care for the elder people witness a great deal of medicine being used by their patients. The identification of non-drug therapies especially psychological therapies could be useful in decreasing the side effects of drugs in these patients. One of the psychological approaches to minimizing depression is group cognitive therapy that not only is effective and dose not have any side effects but also is so inexpensive requiring minimum. Participation in group cognitive therapy sessions leads to reduction of depression in elder women". Using the personal information questionnaire, fifty elder women people who lived in a nursing home were chosen. From among these people those who seemed to suffer from moderate depression were placed randomly in two "Experimental" and "Control" groups. The experimental group participated in ten ninety - minutes sessions of group cognitive therapy within two and half month. .At the end of 10 the therapy session the depression of both groups was evaluated but the comparison of the mean scores of the post test showed a meaningful difference between two groups.