COUNSELING RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Year:2006 | Volume:4 | Issue:16|Papers Count:7

The present research evaluated the effectiveness of Systematic Motivational Group Counseling (SMC) on marital distress. Participants, 23 couples studying at one of the higher education centers of Bojnord, had at least one year of marital life experience. Participants were randomly assigned to two groups: 12 in the experimental group, 11 to the control group. A week prior to the research a marital satisfaction pre-test was administered. The experimental group was exposed to SMC for ten sessions. At the end of the sessions marital satisfaction post test was administered. Using ANCOVA, results were analyzed. The results showed SMC could significantly reduce marital distress. SMC significantly improved the average scores of participants on subscales of, global distress, affective communication, problem solving communication, time togetherness, aggression, disagreement about finances and sexual dissatisfaction. SMC could not significantly reduce the average scores of participants on subscales of role orientation and family history of distress.

The purpose of the present study was to investigate and compare the relationship between Family function and mental health among run away and non-runaway Adolescents. 200 subjects (100 runaway. The ss were answered and 100 non-runaway) with average of 17 years old were randomly selected GHQ and FAD questionnaires-were administered.Data were analyzed through descriptive statistics, one way factir analysis (ANOVA) and Pearson's correlation coefficient.The results indicated significant difference between family function and mental health among eunaway and non-runaway-Adolescents.Runaway adolescents had dis-function family and low health than non-runaway adolescents.

This article proposes that technology, increased knowledge, skills, change of structure, large investment and allocation of more budget alone can not solve educational problems or urantee the development of better human beings or a dynamic and improved society. In other words, among three factors of development, that is, investment, technology and work force, the work force has a pivotal role and without establishment of work culture or ethics and work conscience, the other two factors, although important in their owm place, will be in vain. Technology without work culture is like science without faith.Studies show that work culture is very weak in Iran. This is a signal for educational system to work toward prevention and solving the problem. Attention should be paid to work as an activity which affects every aspects of one's life, including his economic, Social and psychological domains and shapes his identity in large. Planning should be made to teach work culture and ethics correctly and made it innate.The author, benefiting from continuous growth viewpoint and emphasizing one of the school aims-helping each students to prepare for work life and a career-believes that teaching work culture should start from home and be reinforced through encouraging cooperation among home, school and community.

The purpose of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of Meichenbaum group stress inoculation training on Job stress in Lordegan elementary school teachers (men and woman). 40 elementary school teachers were selected randomly. Then they were designated in experimental and control groups. The experimental group received6 sessions stress inoculation group training. Then post test in past session and after two weeks a follow up were performed. The research instrument were Job stress and educational stress in schools. the results based on multivariate analyses showed that stress involution group training have significant effect on the experimental group (p<0/001). There was no significant differences on male and female teachers.

The study aims at reviewing impact of lite skills training on the reduction of conduct disorder in secondary period students in Imam Sajjad School. To reach this end, twenty boy students with conduct disorder between ages 13 & 14 of one school on the base of the available method, children symptom inventory (csi-4) were selected, and was randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The research was done according to the quasi-excremental method through pretest, post test and follow- up with control group. Csi-4 test was administered to the sample groups, afterward the excremental group received the instruction twice a week of one month (each session lasted one hour and half). At the end of the experiment the two groups were tested through csi-4 test and the result of the statistical analysis through repeated measuring method. The significant difference between the two groups. After follow-up for one month it was pointed out that the results were stable and the finding showed that life skills training significantly reduce the amount of conduct disorder of the students.