Journal of Counseling Research

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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.

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Aim:The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of psychological inflexibility and emotion dysregulation in predicting intensity of anger in competitive athletes. Methods: This was a descriptive and correlational research. The statistical population of this study consisted of all competitive athletes (all athletes who participated in any level of competitive sport, either individual or collective) in city of Ardebil in 2019. From a total of participants, 312 were selected through cluster sampling to be included in the study. To collect data, the Clinical Anger Scale (Snell et al , 1995), Comprehensive assessment of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (Comp ACT) Scale (Francis et al, 2016) and Emotion Dysregulation Scale (Gratz, & Roemer, 2004) were used. Data analysis was done through Pearson correlation and Multiple Linear regression formula. Results: The results of multiple regression analysis also showed that 38% of variance of intensity of anger is explained by components of psychological inflexibility and emotion dysregulation variables. There was also a significant positive relationship between psychological inflexibility and emotion dysregulation with intensity of anger (P<0/05). Conclusion: Based on the findings, it can probably be said that athletes who are not capable of emotion regulation and are not capable of flexible behaviors in competitive situations, experience more anger.

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Aim: The motivation of students to pursue studies in the field of psychology and counseling is one of the intriguing and significant topics in the literature and culture of psychotherapy. The aim of this study was to Exploration of effective factors on the tendency to PhD Education in psychology and counseling. Methods: The current research employed a qualitative approach based on the grounded theory. The target population included all doctoral students in the psychology and counseling field at Islamic Azad University of Roudehen in the academic year 2023, and 17 participants were purposively selected using the theoretical saturation principle. Data collection involved semi-structured interviews, and the gathered information was coded based on the method proposed by Strauss and Corbin (2008). Findings: Findings: The results of the study were presented in the form of 52 open codes, 22 core Axial, and 5 selected codes. The 5 selected codes included: Compensation Mechanism (medical perspective, competition, Compensating for feelings of inferiority, approval seeking and need for attention, solving personal and family problems, parents' failed wishes), desire for superiority (feeling of power, social prestige and being an expert, ambition, source of income), scientific worldview (curiosity, scientific thinking, didactic style, interest in psychological texts), humanistic worldview (interest and need for interaction with people, sense of philanthropy), and psychotherapy and education experiences (job satisfaction and client satisfaction, confidence in one's own capabilities, continuing the past path, perception of failure, improving educational and career levels, self-knowledge and personal growth). Finally, the model was presented with five indicators: causal conditions, contextual and background conditions, intervening conditions, strategies, and consequences. Conclusion:Based on the obtained results from this research, it can be stated that the effective factors on the tendency to PhD Education in the field of psychology and counseling encompass a spectrum of factors based on growth and damage.