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Dr Fatemeh Samiee, Mr Hamid Heidari, Mr Mahmod Jalali, Mrs Arezo Gholami,
Volume 15, Issue 58 (7-2016)
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Purpose: The purpose of this research was to evaluate the effectiveness of career training on the development of the career path of the mentally disabled students. Methods:This research was a semi-experimental using a control group and pretest-posttest method. The sample was a group of 72 students in the third, fourth, and fifth grades in primary school. The sample was selected randomly based on clustered sampling from two schools and students were put into the experimental and control groups. The data was gathered using a researcher-made questionnaire based on Gatfredson’s theory and was analyzed by one-way variance analysis and covariance analysis. Results: The data showed that there was a significant difference between the mean scores in the experimental and control groups and a significant difference between the careers’ cognitive map of girls and boys (p<0.001). Conclusion: In general, the career training effects on development of career in mentally disabled students.
Marzieh Jalali, Fatemeh Samiee, Parisa Nilforooshan, Ali Zakery,
Volume 24, Issue 95 (12-2025)
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Aim: Given the lack of future-oriented and multi-level frameworks for explaining adolescents’ career aspirations under the uncertain conditions of the future of work, this study aimed to identify key influencing factors and emerging patterns shaping these aspirations toward the 2050 horizon. This was achieved by analyzing the interaction of political, economic, social, technological, legal, environmental, and psychological factors within the extended PESTEL-P model. ▌Methods: This study employed an exploratory mixed-methods design, integrating expert interviews with a scoping review of the scientific literature. In the qualitative phase, 14 experts from relevant fields were purposively selected and interviewed using semi-structured protocols. In the scoping review phase, 16 peer-reviewed articles indexed in the Scopus database (2000–2024) were analyzed based on predefined inclusion and exclusion criteria. Data were analyzed using thematic analysis. ▌Findings: Five emerging patterns were identified: (1) a semantic shift in career aspirations from stable, status-oriented goals toward immediate and symbolic success; (2) increasing economic pressures accompanied by fragmentation of career identity coherence; (3) the growing influence of technology, digital media, and virtual identities; (4) the declining authority of family and educational institutions alongside the rise of media-based role modeling; and (5) a widening gap between formal policymaking and generational realities, resulting in unstable and short-term career choices. ▌Conclusion: Adolescents’ career aspirations are increasingly shifting from traditional, meaning-oriented goals toward technology-driven, media-influenced, and short-term pathways. These findings underscore the need to critically rethink educational policies, skill-development programs, and career counseling practices in order to better support adaptive and future-oriented career design.
Fatemeh Jalali, Ebrahim Naeimi,
Volume 24, Issue 96 (1-2026)
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Objective: The aim of this study was to explore the perceptions of university counseling center counselors regarding their role in preventing substance abuse among students. Method: This research adopted a qualitative approach and used thematic analysis. The research population consisted of counselors from university counseling centers. The sample group included 13 experienced counselors in the field of addiction from the counseling centers of universities in Tehran, Allameh Tabatabai, Alzahra, Sharif University of Technology, Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran University of Science and Technology, Khajeh Nasir al-Din Tusi University, University of Isfahan, University of Esfahan, University of Tabriz, University of Gilan, University of Shiraz, and Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. The sampling method used was purposeful sampling. Data related to the research question were collected through semi-structured interviews and analyzed using thematic analysis. Findings: After analyzing the interviews and coding them, 30 sub-themes and 9 main themes were extracted, including: counselors' attention to risk factors, awareness-raising for students, awareness-raising for influential individuals in relation to students, preventive education, therapeutic interventions based on professional frameworks, counselors' attention to facilitative components in prevention, the effective capacity of universities in prevention, effective barriers to counselors' attention to prevention, and the role of community-based factors in prevention. Conclusion: Based on the findings, it can be concluded that although counselors at university counseling centers focus on awareness-raising activities and skill-building, they are more focused on therapeutic roles and secondary and tertiary prevention, and regard other factors as more effective in primary prevention. Therefore, university counseling centers need to be more effective in primary prevention and take further steps in this area. It is essential for higher authorities to develop a comprehensive program and organize training courses for counselors in this regard for all universities.
