The present study is the result of a content analysis on the book“,Testing English Language SKILLS, From Theory to Practice”,written by Farhady, Jafarpour, and Birjandi. This book is one of the most widely-used textbooks selected by language instructors for the testing courses of TEFL, Translation, and English literature majors. Using McDonough, Shaw, and Masuhara’, s (2013) textbook evaluation framework, the authors carried out both internal and external evaluations of the claims made by the authors in the preface of the book. The claims included: using lucid language, comprehensive coverage, a desirable organization of the materials presented and a direct relevance to the Iran’, s context. Furthermore, the textbook was also analyzed based on its physical appearance, content, and methodology. The strengths and weaknesses in each domain were categorized and presented. At the end, some recommendations have been made to the authors, in case of any future editions of the textbook by the authors.

Today, the topic of mental stresses due to work and life is so important among people, education specialists, mental health specialists and other people who are responsible for people’s health. One of the important aspects of health condition is people’s mental health. We can say that self efficiency is a base for mental health and it reinforces the senses of adequacy, efficiency and ability of controlling life. The images and perceptions that people have about their abilities are called. Self-efficiency has some impacts on people’s struggles and assiduity. This study examines the impact of life SKILLS training on raising the general efficacy of women heads of household in Tehran Municipality in 2010-2011. The study sample included 220 women heads of households are covered by Tehran Municipality. Type of variance is quasi-experimental design, pretest-posttest design & research and the sampling covariance. We used chance sampling. Also we used Schwartz general self efficiency questionnaire. Findings show that there is a significant relationship between life SKILLS training and enhance self-efficacy among female headed households in Tehran Municipality.

Various studies confirm that the evaluation of environmental quality indicators in sensitive uses such as medical buildings plays an important role in maintaining the health, satisfaction and improvement of patients. The hospital is one of the vital and sensitive parts of the city, which should be given special attention in terms of the conditions related to passive defense in order to manage risks. The main goal of the research is to evaluate the impact of environmental factors on the improvement of the accessibility of the users of treatment spaces in crisis situations with the passive defense approach. The current research is exploratory in nature and descriptive-survey in terms of data collection method. The research plan in the development of tools and preparation of expressions in three stages (1) content analysis of documents; (2) Delphi survey and (3) semiotic analysis are defined. Using questionnaire data and spss26 software and using Friedman's test to check the normality of the data to check the relationship between the variables, a statistical analysis was performed, finally with a plan analysis of two Rasoul Akram and Laleh hospitals in Tehran using Depth software. Map was used to examine the syntactic components and their relationship with the components studied in the research. According to the obtained results, the functional, physical and social indicators in accessibility are related to spatial depth and interconnectedness indicators in the space syntax method, and as a result, they affect the accessibility of space in crisis conditions in hospitals.

Background and Objective: Pregnancy anxiety is triggered  by a woman's concerns about pregnancy, childbirth, the health of the baby, and future parenting  negatively affecting pregnancy outcomes. Studies addressing the impact  of life SKILLS training on health, particularly in pregnant women, are rare with inconclusive findings. The present study aimed to assess the effect of life SKILLS training by a trained midwife on the mitigation of  pregnancy anxiety. Materials and Methods: This randomized controlled trial was conducted in Abadan, Iran, in 2020. After assessing 180 pregnant women for eligibility, 86 pregnant women were selected from six clinics according to the inclusion criteria and allocated to control or intervention groups randomly. The intervention group underwent a 90-minute life SKILLS training(self-awareness, problem-solving, coping with stress, coping with emotions, interpersonal relationships)every week for six weeks. Data were analyzed using a Chi-squared test, paired t-test, and ANCOVA method. Results: No differences were detected between the two groups in terms of demographic and obstetric characteristics, as well as the mean scores of pregnancy anxiety and its domains. After the intervention, the mean score of pregnancy anxiety(P<0.001) and domains of self-centered fears(P<0.001), fear of giving birth(P<0.001), fear of bearing a handicapped baby(P<0.01), concern about mood changes(P<0.0001), and concern over changes in the marital relationship(P<0.0001), in the intervention group were significantly lower than those in the control group. Conclusion: The implementation of selected life SKILLS training by a midwife in a course shorter than that of the current courses could successfully reduce pregnancy-related anxiety. Therefore, it can be used by midwives as an effective non-pharmacologic approach in pregnancy .

Introduction: This study surveyed the effect of teaching social-emotional SKILLS on teachers to develop their socialemotional SKILLS.Method: This research is a kind of experimental design in which 68 elementary teachers (grades 4 and 5) with at least 10 years of teaching experience and bachelor degree randomly assigned into control (18 females, 16 males) and experimental (20 females, 14 males) groups. The Bar-On social-emotional scale (already informed by Samooei) used collecting data. This questionnaire has 90 items in 5 domains (interpersonal, intrapersonal, adjustment, general mood and stress management). Social-emotional SKILLS in the field of interpersonal and intrapersonal skill taught in 10 two-hour sessions to experimental group participants. Results: Experimental group performance in socialemotional SKILLS and its components were higher than the control group and their difference was significant. There was no significant decrease in social-emotional SKILLS and its components after 4 months.Conclusion: To be most effective, emotional literacy content and processes should be applied consistently across the curriculum in all grade levels. Earlier steps to operate social-emotional program are to involve teachers with these SKILLS and to promote their social-emotional abilities.

Background: Managers’ communication SKILLS are one of the most important topics in educational sector of universities of medical sciences and may have considerable effect on faculty members and employees. This study was performed to determine the level of communication SKILLS (verbal, listening, feedback) of the heads of department of faculties and its relation with some demographic variables.Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted from June 2009 to January 2010. We enrolled all of the heads of departments (N=60) in Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, western Iran. The participants received a self-administered 24-item questionnaire in Likert format (six general items and 18 items related to communication SKILLS). Data were analyzed with SPSS software using Chi-square and Fisher's exact tests.Results: The average scores of verbal, listening and feedback communication were 22.5, 16.1 and 21.1, respectively. Accordingly, 78.3% of participants in verbal communication, 16.7% in listening communication and 73.3% in feedback communication had high status. There were significant differences between the average score of listening SKILLS and age (P=0.013) as well as gender (P=0.042). In addition, there was a significant statistical difference between verbal SKILLS and gender (P=0.021).Conclusion: The overall communication SKILLS of more than half of the heads of departments were moderate. This needs designing some pro-grams for improving department managers’ communication SKILLS.

Background: Child abuse is one of the social problems. The control of which requires good and appropriate planning in order to prevent and reduce the related problems. The present study describes the relationship between social SKILLS of adolescents with their abuse at 17 district th in Tehran. The purpose of this research was to study the relationship between social SKILLS of adolescents with their Maltreatment in the 17 district th in Tehran.Method: This is a descriptive - correlational study conducted through multistage sampling.Sample size included 144 students selected from four girl and boy secondary schools in 17 district th of Tehran city. Matson evaluation of social SKILLS and Child Abuse Self Report Scale were used for measuring social SKILLS and child abuse. For analyzing the data Pearson correlation test and multiple regression analysis were used.Results: The findings demonstrated a significant relationship between adolescents` social SKILLS and maltreatment with them. The results indicated that adolescents` aggressiveness is the most significant predictor in maltreating them.Conclusion: Overall it is concluded that deficits in social SKILLS particularly aggressiveness, non-social behaviors, and lack of observing appropriate social SKILLS at children interacting with adults increases the likelihood of children`s abuse. So it is necessary to improve social SKILLS of teenagers and students by authorities and practitioners.