COUNSELING RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Year:2007 | Volume:6 | Issue:22|Papers Count:9

Over years, researchers in the field of marriage and family therapy have assessed functionality of therapeutic models. Development of mental health practices at the onset of 21st century highlighted the importance of studying effectiveness of various therapeutic models. In fact, the important question is "what kind of therapy is better?" Meta-analysis integrates results of various studies in order to compare the effect size of various therapeutic models. Aim of the present study is to review the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral models in treatment of marital problems using meta-analytic method. The results indicate that improvement in 17 percent of couples whom were treated through cognitive-behavioral therapeutic models. The extent of improvement was minor. In other words, probability of improvement among couples under cognitive-behavioral treatment models, suffering from marital dissatisfaction, conflict, lack of intimacy, maladjustment and depression, were 17 percent more than couples with no treatment group. Results suggest that effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral models in treatment of the marital problems is higher than no treatment group, but such a level of effectiveness is not high enough to call it a successful therapeutic model.

This study was intended to investigate the effect of premarital relationships on marital confilict of the married student of Tehran university. Through clustering sample 80 subject were selected. This participant responded to the questionnaires. T-test was used to campare the mean of independent groups.The results showed that:1) The marital conflicts are more frequent among those who haven't had no relation before marriage. 2) The cooperation between those who have had previous relationship is less than those who have no relation; 3) Although, the sexual relationship between those who had previous relationship is less in comparison with those who had no relationship. The difference was not significant; 4) The level of emotional reaction of those who the had previous relation is less than those who had no relationship; 5) Statistical difference for family relation with the wives, friends and the friendly relationships was not significant; 6)There is a significant difference between the 2 groups of those who had previous relationship in financial problems.

This research has been planned evaluate of the relationship between emotional intelligence, job burnout and mental health of the employees of an industrial complex.For this purpose' Iran khodro's male employees chosen as the population and the sample 150 men were selected by random sampling.In order to collect information, three questioners were used: Emotional Intelligence, Mental Health (GHQ) and Job Burnout. Data was analysed by descriptive statistics. For evaluation of the correlation between variables, analysis 0 f variance (ANOVA) was used.Data analysis for the first hypothesis showed that emotional intelligence has a basic role in job burnout. There was positive correlation between emotional intelligence and mental health. Emotional intelligence caused 50% of mental health problems. Relationship between mental health and Job burnout was not significant.

Objectives: The object of the study was to determine the effectiveness of group encounter and response prevention treatment on the reduction of obsessive-compulsive symptoms in out-patients referred to psychological service centers of Isfahan.Method: 12 patients were randomly selected and assigned to two groups: The experimental group received group encounter and response prevention treatment, and the control group were in the waiting list. All the patients were interviewed, scored average or less on the Beck Depression Inventory, and did not have any personality disorders. The Maudsley Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory (MOCI) was administered as the pre, post and follow-up tests. Findings: The results of multivariate analysis of variance showed that the experimental group significantly scored less than the control group did on the post-test and on the one-month follow-up (P<0.000).Conclusions: This study suggests that encounter and response prevention group therapy reduces obsessive-compulsive symptoms. In addition, patients presented good compliance.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence and coping styles of the couples communication patterns. A random sample of 60 couples of Karaj answered trait Meta Mood Scale, Coping Inventory, and Communication Pattern Questionnaire. Data was analysed by Pearson correlation, t-test and regression. The results showed a positive significant correlation between emotional intelligence and mutual constructive communication. The results also showed a positive significant correlation between task-oriented coping style and mutual constructive communication. The results revealed a negative significant correlation between emotion-oriented and avoidance-oriented coping styles with mutual constructive communication. Finally regression analysis showed that the variation of mutual constructive communication was predicted by emotional intelligence and task-oriented coping style.

This study deals with counseling and guidance needs of the students at Shahrekord' Azad University. 500 students were selected through random cluster sampling meted. The subjects were then evaluated via a questionnaire on counseling and guidance needs assessment. Results showed that 68% of students required different guidance services and 42% were in need of counseling services. The initial and the most salient needs were those of methods to enhance self-confidence as well as concentration methods while the least important needs were those of methods of adaptation to a new environment and entrepreneurship.The other findings indicated that the counseling and guidance needs were different among married and single students on the one hand and male or female students on the other.

In this research, the relationship between family efficiency and religiosity and mental health has been studied. The hypothesis of the research was to test if there is significant relationship between family efficiency and religiosity and mental health, as well as comparing boys and girls FAD religiosity GHQ inventories were used to gather the data for 120 subjects in Azad Islamic university (60 boys & 60 girls). Multiple-regression indicated that correlation between the variables were significant there was a significant difference between boys and girls.