COUNSELING RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Year:2005 | Volume:4 | Issue:13|Papers Count:5

The present study is a comparative and content analysis investigation on counseling's code of ethics in some selected countries. The main purpose is familiarization with ethical principles, guidelines and the applicability at the code in counseling profession. For this reason, five counseling code of ethics from different counseling associations of American, Canadian, British, New Zealand and Irish were compared. The comparative study of the counseling code of ethics indicates that the similarities are more than differences. The differences are mostly related to structural and cultural dimensions. Some differences are related to structural and cultural dimensions. Some differences are related to the classification of the ethical counseling subject matters and qualification and some how quantification of the content of counseling process. The onset as well as the duration of establishing of the association and preparing the code of ethics in each country could affect on promoting quality and quantity of professional subject matters. The basic similarities between codes of ethics are that all have been prepared by counseling association with the purpose of presenting professional principles and values in counseling. Some important similar subject materials in these code of ethics are confidentiality, client's rights, counseling relationships and avoiding personal and dual relationships, counselor's competency and responsibility, counselor's education, supervision on counselor's performance and so on.  

This study has been prepared to examine the effect of Relationship Enhancement Program on Marital Satisfaction of dual-career couples. 24 couples participated in this study. At the first all of the couples were given pretest. Based on the pretest in global distress scale, the couples were separated in three groups randomly. 12 couples in control group and 12 couples in RE group. Relationship Enhancement Program for R E group were done in 7 sessions. Control group received no education. Each of these two groups received post test of "MSI- R" at the end of program. After a month from the end of the program each of subjects answered the follow up test. Results showed that Relationship Enhancement Program had increased marital satisfaction of the couples meaningfully (p<0/01). Relationship Enhancement program hade improved subscales of global distress, affective communication and problem solving communication meaningfully (p<0/01).

This research has been done for investigating the relationship between religiosity and marital satisfaction. The purpose of this research was studying the effect of some factors on marital satisfaction. The design of this research was descriptive. Statistical society was formed from the all of Tehranian's couples. The sample consisted of 100 couple were selected cluster random sampling. Research instruments consist of Allport's Religious Orientation Scale (AROS), Mabad and Enrich questionnaires. In order to data analysis was used Pearson correlation -coefficient, ANOVA, T, chi square tests. The results indicated that: -There is a significant correlation between intrinsic religious orientation and practicing religious believes and marital satisfaction. -There isn't any significant correlation between extrinsic religious orientation and marital satisfaction. - Education variable significant effect on religious orientation and practicing religious believes. - Gender variable hasn't any significant effect on religious orientation and practicing religious believes.  

The aim of this research is to improve the relationships between mothers and their young girls, who were the students of the first grade of high school in the second district of Tehran, through using the psychodrama method. In this research two high schools, as representatives of all high schools in the second district of Tehran, were randomly chosen. On the whole one hundred students of the first grade of high school were chosen (50 from one high school and 50 from the other). This study is a semi-experimental one with a pre-test and a post-test. After applying the conflict inventory on the research samples, and those with a conflict mark more than standard level were chosen .16 students were chosen randomly from these people and divided into two groups (8 students in experimental group and 8 students in control group) . Pre-test and post -test were conducted on each group with this difference that the members of experimental group attended in 8 psychodrama sessions. The measurement inventory in this research is a questionnaire of solving conflict with parents, which contains 15 questions and three scales of verbal aggressiveness, physical aggressiveness, and reasoning. Obtained results of data processing were studied and analyzed through descriptive indicators such as average, standard deviation and also through inferable indicators such as covariance test Obtained results indicated that the girls who have attended psychodrama sessions and those who have not show a significant difference in solving conflict with their mothers. The membership of young girls in psychodrama groups leads to boosting the rate of using reason to solving their conflicts with mothers and also leads to reducing the rate of using verbal and physical aggressiveness to solving conflict with mothers.  

This study compares the Relationship Beliefs & marital burnout of women who want to divorce with that of women who wanted to continue their marital life. This research was done on 100 women (50 women who wanted to divorce and 50 women who want to continue their marital life) respond to the Couple Burnout Questioner (CBQ) & Relationship Beliefs Inventory (RBI). The results of study showed that there was a significant difference between the total scores on the RBI with regard to specific Relationship Beliefs of "Partner Can not Change" and "Disagreement is Destructive"& "Mind Reding is Expected" there was not found for hypotheses predicting a significant difference in beliefs related to "Sexual Perfectionism" and "Gender Deference", finding indicated a significant deference between correlation of the relationship beliefs and marital burnout between two groups of women. The results support previous research findings about the important role of Relationship Beliefs in marital adjustment.