COUNSELING RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Year:2006 | Volume:5 | Issue:19|Papers Count:6

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of Imago relationship therapy on marital intimacy. The research procedure was quasi experimental with prestest and posttest design and a control group. Research group were couples referred to counseling centers in Esfahan.Sample group consisted of 32 subjects (16 couples) that were randomly selected and allocated into experimental and control groups. Measurement tools consisted of Intimacy Scale and Intimacy needs Survey.The experimental group participated in 10 sessions of Imago relationship therapy. The results were analyzed with covariate using SPSS software. The results indicated that Imago reationship therapy increased couples, intimacy, as well as emotional, intellectual, sexual and physical intimacy.

The goal of the present research was to investigate the effects of social skills training on reduction of shyness of teenage high school girls in Tehran. Social skills are learned behaviors which enable the person to have mutual relations with otheres, show positive reactives, and avoid behaviors with negative consequences.The research group consists of all female high school students in Tehran. This is an experimental and practical research. In one of Theran's school districts, one high school was randomly chosen, and a questionnaire of shyness was given to all of the students. Thirty students whose score on the questionnaire was one standard deviation below the mean were selected. Social skills training were given to fifteen members of the experimental group for ten sessions. Member of the control group did not get any training. The instrument used in this research was the stanford Questionnaire in Means of the two groups was compared using independent T. Results indicated a significant difference between the experimental a control groups, showing the positive effect of social skills training on reduction of shyness.

The aim of this study was to investigate one of the family issues called Couple Burnout among dual-career couples and its relationship to Career Burnout of the nurses. The sample was 70 female nurses married for at least two years and had at least on child. Instruments used were Couple Burnout Measure (CBM) by Pines (1996), and Maslash Burnout Inventory (MBI) by Maslash (2001).Descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation) were used to analyze the data.Inferential statistics (pearson correlation coefficient and regression) were used for testing the hypotheses. The result indicated that there were significant correlation between couple burnout, emotional exhaustion, and depersonalization (intensity). There is significant correlation between couple burnout and all of the four components of the burnout syndromes (intensity and frequency). There were the significant relationship between the work times and couple burnout. There was significant correlation between the number of children and emotional exhaustion. The results indicated that emotional exhaustion can predict couple burnout.

Current research is aimed to determine the impact of group spirituality training on decreasing depression of female students. This is a quasi-experimental research with pretest-posttest and control group design. Procedure of sampling has been done by cluster random method. For this purpose, 20 students were selected and randomly classified into control and experiment groups. Members of the experiment group participated in ten group counseling sessions for one and half hour. A week after the last session, posttest was administered for both groups. In this research Beck depression inventory (short form) and spiritual experience inventory from Ghobari and et al. were used as measurement tools. Beck depression inventory was used for measuring the extent of depression of members and measuring the impact of presented education spiritual experience inventory (Ghobari and et at.) was used for measuring the extent of spirituality. Result indicated differences between experiment of and control groups were significant. That is spiritual intervention including prayer, forgiveness, transcendental meditation, and finding meaning in life helps to dectease depression in female students.

The aim of the present study is to investigate the effectiveness of the counseling centers of the Education Ministry.The subjects were 219 men and women randomly selected from available counseling centers. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. The results show that clients are satisfied with their emotional, educational, occupational and family problems of to the centers.Although there are limitations in counseling centers, they con satisfy the cliensts expectations.