Journal of Counseling Research

 Objectives: The purpose of this study was to predict the marital burnout on emotional expressivness and marital attributions in married people referring to the welfare organization in Ardabil. Method: Statistical population comprised of all married people referring to the welfare organization in Ardabil in 1394, from this population, 150 married people were selected using convenience sampling method. The used tools were Marital Burnout Questionnaire, Emotional expressivness Questionnaire and marital attributions Questionnaire. Data analysis was performed through Pearson’s correlation coefficient and regression analysis. Results: The findings showed a positive significant correlation between marital of attributions and Expressiveness negative with marital burnout and significant negative correlation between Positive expressiveness and Express intimacy with marital burnout. The results of regression analysis also revealed that 63% of the total variance of marital burnout can be explained by marital attributions and 71% by Emotional expressivness. Conclusion: Therefore, considering the importance of marital burnout of married people and role of Emotional expressivness and marital attributions to predict it, paying attention to informing people about the attributions of communication and emotional expressiveness is necessary.

Purpose: The pourpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of instruction of model of healthy family on resiliency in mothers of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in Qom, Iran. Method: Quasi experimental design was adopted in which pre-test, post-test, and control group were deployed. The sampling population of the present study included all mothers of children with ASD of Qom in 2016. In so doing, 30 participants were selected based on simple random sampling among those mothers willingly participated in instructional sessions of model of healthy family. Subsequently, they were randomly assigned into two groups of experimental (n=15) and control group (n=15). During an identical condition, data from both groups were collected by means of demographic information questionnaire resiliency and then analyzed as the pre-test. Subsequently, during a period of 10 sessions participants of experimental group were instructed the model of healthy family, whereas control group received no specific instruction. After that, both groups participated in a following post-test and data were analyzed using ANCOVA. Results: The results discovered that instruction of model of healthy family has a meaningful and positive impact on resiliency (P<0/05) in mothers of children with ASD. Conclusion: All in all, based on the results of the present study, the model of healthy family, as an appropriate treatment, can have a considerable efficacy on recovery of resiliency in mothers of children with Autism ASD.