Journal of Counseling Research

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The Purpose of this research was to investigate parental monitoring role and affiliation with deviant peers in high risk behavior. The design of the current study involves correlation using structural equation modeling. The population of the current study involve all male and female adolescent in Tehran high school from which 1241 were selected through cluster sampling. To collect the data, different scales such as Iran’s adolescent risk-taking scales, parental monitoring scales and affiliation with delinquent peers were used. The data were analyzed using correlation statistical indices, independent T and structural equation modeling through SPSS and LISRER. The obtained results showed that there was a significant difference between girls and boys in high risk behavior, parental monitoring and affiliation with delinquent peers. Moreover, parental monitoring through affiliation with delinquent peers had a significant effect on high risk behavior. The mediating model can explain 0.55 high risk behavior variance. It's highly influential to pay attention to the parental monitoring role in decreasing affiliation with delinquent peers as well as decreasing the high risk behavior by adolescents. .

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Alaminiya, M – Eskandari, H – Borjali, A The scientific theories including psychological theories based on some specific meta-theoretical presuppositions which considerably influence the theory, and the differences among psychological theories, to some extent, reflect more fundamental differences among theories on these presuppositions. Since theoretical and philosophical presuppositions play an important role in evolution of scientific theories, it seems, changing these basic presuppositions and replacing them with metaphysical cultural assumptions as new foundations, can conclude paradigm shift in present scientific theories. In the present study, anthropological, psychological and methodological presuppositions of psychopathology and psychotherapy have been investigated according to Rumi's view, on the scope of helping to shape a new vision in these domains. Our research method is qualitative content analysis. Results have shown that, Rumi, emphasis on freedom of mankind and sees the individual as capable of fundamental change throughout life span .He believes Language is the main determinant of behavior. Rumi sees the tendency of man to growth and perfection as a way that leads him to actual health and elation. He believes mankind is generally in pathology situation, man usually misdiagnosis true self and is captured by physical attachment, egoistic tendencies and vain imagination which make him upset and distressed. Amplifying Pseudo self Puts a person at risk of pathology and make him ill. The process of therapy and getting rid of the pathology, is the process of loss and the elimination of the Pseudo self and gain the "bi khodi" that involves difficult encounter and is associated with tension and pain. In Rumi's view, language is so important and man’s mental is not separate from his language. Language especially story and narrative has consid, erable and important role in shaping the meaning, cognition and behavior and is considered as origin of psychopathology and psychotherapy. It’s the language which makes a person ill or heals him. Linguistic and narrative analysis is a suitable way to study human issues and psychopathology. Keywords: Rumi, psychopathology and psychotherapy, anthropological presupposition, psychological presupposition, methodological presupposition, language. Construction and Validity of Problems between Adolescent and Parents Test Sanagooi Zadeh, M - Etemadi, O - Ahmadi, A - Jazayeri , R The present research aims to design and build problems adolescents with parents test and assess its validity. The method of this research has had two stages. The first stage was qualitative method. For this purpose, in addition to interview with adolescents and parents and sciences extensive library studies was collected categories problems adolescents with parents with systematic analyze method. Questionnaire was made consisting 60 questions in two forms mothers’ form & father’s form. In the second stage, validity and reliability of this tool was examined by a connotative method. So 200 boys students of Isfahan high school was selected by simple random sampling, And they complete this questionnaire. The data were studied through exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). The finding revealed three factor (internal problems, interpersonal relationship problems, Parental style). The results of analysis with exploratory analysis and confirmatory analysis explain a considerable percentage of variance of the three factors. The Cronbach’s alpha equal was for mother’s form test 0/93 and father’s form test 0/92. The conclusion is that it is possible to make a test of high validity with consistent factors and ample ability to measure adolescent's problems with parents. ,

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The present research aims to design and build problems adolescents with parents test and assess its validity. The method of this research has had two stages. The first stage was qualitative method. For this purpose, in addition to interview with adolescents and parents and sciences extensive library studies was collected categories problems adolescents with parents with systematic analyze method. Questionnaire was made consisting 60 questions in two forms mothers’ form & father’s form. In the second stage, validity and reliability of this tool was examined by a connotative method. So 200 boys students of Isfahan high school was selected by simple random sampling, And they complete this questionnaire. The data were studied through exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). The finding revealed three factor (internal problems, interpersonal relationship problems, Parental style). The results of analysis with exploratory analysis and confirmatory analysis explain a considerable percentage of variance of the three factors. The Cronbach’s alpha equal was for mother’s form test 0/93 and father’s form test 0/92. The conclusion is that it is possible to make a test of high validity with consistent factors and ample ability to measure adolescent's problems with parents.

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The birth of a child creates a significant change in the family system and reset the system family. This study examined mother’s perceptions of everyday marital change across the transition to parenthood. What challenges and changes women experience the transition to parenthood? The method of this research was phenomenological and qualitative method. 30 women were selected by purpose-based way. For data gathering, we used supervisors and participants review criteria. The findings showed that mothers faced with the challenges of changing views about self and former lifestyle, inactivity and loss of professional identity, loss of interest in sexual intimacy, traditional beliefs about baby sexuality, Overwhelming focus on children, little time or resources to do a little business partner role, increased stress and depression, increasing the need for organizing, having a common time limit of couple relationships, Strengthen the relationship between mother and child, restriction of freedom and a sense of inequality, lack of co-management in children and egalitarianism in the role, the role of anxiety in determining the boundaries of the system.10 women decreased marital satisfaction during transition to parenthood and marital satisfaction of 3 women didn’t no change.17 women increased marital satisfaction in transition to parenthood. We concluded Women be faced with major challenges in transition to parenthood, in many cases, health education interventions should be done with family. Health professionals should have special attention to the transition to parenthood.

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i The purpose of this research was to determine the effect of attachment styles and parenting styles on self-actualization with mediating role of personality characters in students of Islamic Azad University, Science and Research of Khuzestan. 360 students (174 girls, 132 boys) were selected by simple random sampling method. The instruments included Simpson Attachment Inventory, Zaynali Inventory, NEO-FFI and Ahwas Self- Actualization Inventory. Fitness of the proposed model was examined through Structural Eqmation Modeling (SEM), using SPSS- 18 and Amas-18 Software packes. Indirect hypothesis were tested by bootstrap procedure. The results showed that the proposed model fit the data. Better fit and more meaningful results obtained by omittinh 1 nonsignificant path (authoritative style to openness) and using AMOS modification indices. Results related to indirect effects showed that indirect paths were significant except 3 indirect paths (secure attachment style to self–actualization through conscientiousness, unsecure attachment style to self–actualization through neuroticism and authoritative style to self–actualization through conscientiousness).

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Khaled Aslani , Ziba Zandi , Abbas Amanelahi Aim: The purpose of this study was to test the model of the relationship between attachment styles with affective adjustment and general health with mediating factor of child’s evaluation of inter-parental conflict and triangulation among female high school students in Ahvaz. Method: Descriptive and path analysis were used as the method for data analysis. Total of 213 female high school students were randomly selected through cluster sampling method. Participants completed the revised Adult Attachment Scale (RASS), Children Perception of Inter-parental Conflict Scale (CPIC), General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28), and Adjustment Inventory for School Students (AISS). Results: The analysis of structural equation modeling did not seem to show a desirable goodness of fit for the proposed model. However, carrying out covariation for child’s evaluation of inter-parental conflicts and triangulation, showed a good fitness for the data obtained from the final proposed model. The results of direct coefficients indicated a significant correlation between ambivalent and anxiety attachment styles with general health, affective adjustment, child evaluation of inter-parental conflict and triangulation, child evaluation of inter-parental conflict with general health, and triangulation with affective adjustment. Results from using Preacher and Hayes indirect coefficients test showed a significant relationship between ambivalent and anxiety attachment styles with general health that was mediated by child evaluation of the conflict between his or her parents, as well as their use of triangulation. Moreover, there seemed to be significant relationships between ambivalent and anxiety attachment styles, with affective adjustment, which was mediating by child’s evaluation of inter-parental conflict. Conclusions: Parents’ conflictual relationship and triangulation can have negative influence on general health and affective adjustment during children’s developmental process.

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The purpose of present research was study on relationship between child-parent conflict and student’s academic self- concept with their life satisfaction. Method of research was correlation studies. The study population was all of male and female students in junior high school in Namin. The sample were 293 students of third graders that selected by using multistage cluster sampling method. Research instrument were Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS),Yi- Hsin Chen School self-concept inventory and Conflict Tactics Scales (CP). The data were analyzed with Pearson correlation and multiple regression methods. The results showed there was positive relationship between academic self- concept with student’s life satisfaction and there was negative relationship between child-mother conflict with student’s life satisfaction. The result of multiple regression showed that academic self- concept and mother’s verbal aggression are able for prediction the student’s life satisfaction. Other predictor variables are not able for prediction the student’s life satisfaction. Based on the results of the current study, it is concluded that Attempts to form positive academic self-concept and reduce conflicts between parent-child among adolescents have important contributions to their life satisfaction.

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Aim: The aim of this study was comparing parenting styles of parents of children with and without autism spectrum disorder. Method: This was a causal-comparative research. The statistical population of this research includes the whole parents of children with and without autism spectrum disorder in Shiraz city that among them, 90 subjects (49 parents of children with autism spectrum disorders and 50 parents of children without autism spectrum disorders) were selected as a sample size. Sample of parents of children with autism spectrum disorder were selected by available sampling and sample of parents of children without autism spectrum disorder were selected by multistage random sampling method. Parenting styles questioner (Robinson et al., 1995) was used for measuring of parenting styles. Data were analyzed using MANOVA. Results: results showed that the authoritarian's Parenting style of parents of children with autism spectrum disorder significantly are more than the parents of children without autism spectrum disorders and authoritative parenting style of parents of children without autism spectrum disorder significantly are more than of parents of children with autism spectrum disorders(P<0.001) and in permissive's parenting styles there was no significant differences between parents of children with and without autism spectrum disorder (p>0/05). Conclusion: According to the finding of this research, designing and implementing of parenting styles workshops for parents of children with autism spectrum disorder is necessary.

Keywords: Parenting Styles, Parents, Children, Autism Spectrum Disorder

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Purpose: This study was carried out in order to compare and examine the effect of Positive Parenting Program (Triple P) training and Parent Management Training (PMT) on the children’s behavioral problems and the parents’ parenting style.

Methods: The present research was a quasi-experimental study using a pretest-posttest-follow up design with a control group. The study population consisted of all children with behavioral problems and their parents, in the elementary schools in city of Sanandaj in 2016.  Ninety individuals were selected through multi-steps random sampling method. Participants  were administered Conners Children’s Behavior Questionnaire (1990) and the Alabama Parenting Styles and Dimensions Questionnaire (PSDQ - 1996) in three phases. Parent management training was done in twelve 40-60 minute sessions, while positive parentling was done in eight 2 hour sessions, both for the two experimental groupsResults: In comparison to Triple P training method, PMT method had a higher effect on conduct, pro-social, psychosomatic, and shame-anxiety problems (p<0.01). PMT treatment had a higher effect on each dimension of positive parenting, warmth and involvement, physical coercion, and poor supervision, compared to Triple P treatment (p<0.01). After one month, the results of the follow-up indicated that there was a difference between the experimental and control groups in terms of behavioral problems and parenting style, and the effectiveness of the two treatment methods on behavioral problems and positive parenting was maintained after one month (p<0.01). Conclusion: The results of the present study showed that PMT method had a higher effect on behavioral problems, and Triple P had a higher effect on dimensions of parenting. These results are useful for psychotherapists and counselors with regard to selecting the type of intervention.

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Brever, M.M.( 2010).The effects  of child gender and child age at the time of parental divorce on the development. COLLEGE OF SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES, Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Psychology Educational Track.
 

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The Interpersonal Conflicts of Married People Obliged to Care for their Old Parents: A Qualitative Study
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Objective: This survey aims to identify interpersonal conflicts of the married people obliged to take care of their old parents.
Methodology: This survey was conducted by adopting qualitative method and phenomenological approach. Participants of this survey were married people with children who lived in Qom City during 2016 and took care of their old parents. The statistical sample includes 13 individuals (n=8 female and n=5 male) selected through objective sampling method. The size was determined through saturation principle. Data collection was done through semi-structured interview and analysis of collected data was done based on Collaizi's seven-step method. The method includes a range of steps from reading interview transcriptions to validation of findings.
Findings: The interpersonal conflicts that participants experienced were categorized into four classes namely siblings' conflicts (disagreement and maladjustment), marital conflicts (marital deprivations, maladjustment, promotion of bad moods and tripartite conflicts), parent-child conflict (low attention to children, maladjustment, problems of young children, tripartite conflict), and child-parent conflicts (enmeshment, maladjustment).
Conclusion: Findings of present survey suggest that caring after old parent(s) by their adult children may contribute to certain interpersonal conflicts between such adults and their own children. However, comparison of current findings with conclusions of previous surveys suggest that this issue is not an absolute as other factors such as socioeconomic status, familial condition, parent’s previous attention to his/her child, and children’s normal and motivational beliefs affect the event.
        Keywords: Interpersonal Conflicts, Married People, Care, Old Parents.
 

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Aim : This study aimed to investigating the role of Satisfaction with family life and the Quality of family life in the Anxiety and depression in children and other objective was to test the mediating role of parenting stress.
Methods: For this purpose 499 parents of female students were selected by random cluster sampling. They completed the Kansas Family Life Satisfaction Scale Family, Quality of Family Life Scale, Parenting Stress Index - Short Form and  Rutter Child Behavior Questionnaire. Data were analyzed by structural equation modeling.
Results: The results of data analysis showed all paths Satisfaction with family life and the Quality of family life to Anxiety and depression has been significant and negative.
Conclusion: Parenting stress played a mediating role and was a good model fit indices. Either Focus on Quality factors created in family life and Reduce parenting stress to Reduces symptoms of anxiety and depression in children.

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Aim: The aim of this study was to compare the parent-adolescent perception about the flexibility of family boundaries based on development.

Method: this research was done by qualitative research method and phenomenological approach. By convenience sampling, 10 girl adolescents aged from 15 to 18 and their mothers aged 37 to 55 were selected and their perceptions of family boundaries were studied by deep semi-structured interviews. Then the data were classified and coded and the results were expressed by validity report method.

Findings: the analysis of participants’ experiences leaded to three main themes which include flexibility, lack of flexibility and exorbitant flexibility of family boundaries from parents and their adolescents’ point of view. Also from each of the three themes above, 14, 5 and 1 sub-themes in parents and 3, 5 and 6 sub-themes in adolescents were gained.

Conclusion: the results showed that according to the in transition context of the society of Iran, none of the two conditions of lack of flexibility and exorbitant flexibility can meet the adolescents’ needs and protect the basic security of family. Hence it seems essential for the officials of mental health, to make parents aware of how to balance the boundaries inside the family. Also conducting negotiations on family rules and the compliance of parents on the boundaries were the preventing factors of problems in families with flexible boundaries, that ignoring them in families with strict or permissive boundaries causes dissatisfaction in adolescents and makes the basic security of family at risk.

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the quality of parent-child interaction and critical thinking disposition with mental health components among adolescent girls.For this purpose, 319 girls from second grade of high school students in Yazd city were selected randomly in a multi-stage cluster sampling method. The instruments used in the research included the Parent-Child Relationship Questionnaire (PCRS), the Ricketts Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory (CTDI) and General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28).For data  analysis , Pearson correlation and regression analysis were used. The results of this study showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between the quality of parent-child interaction with mental health and critical thinking patterns of adolescent  girls. There is also a positive and significant  relationship between the tendency to critical thinking and mental health. The results of regression analysis showed  that quality of communication with father significantly predicted mental health and tendency to critical thinking in female adolescents.
 

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Objectives: The aim of the current meta-analysis was to determine the effectiveness of parent education programs on children's externalized disorders. This research, using the meta-analysis technique and by integrating the results of various researches, determines the size of the effect of parent education programs.
Method: A total of 21 acceptable methodologies were selected and meta-analysis was performed on them. Data retrieval sources, SIDs, Noormags, Magiran, and the comprehensive Humanities Portal (ensani.ir). Data analysis and calculation of effect size were performed using the CMA2 software and the Hedges g index.
Results: The findings from this meta-analysis showed that the effect of parent education programs on extraversion impairment (1.17) is at a significant level of 0.00, which is evaluated in accordance with the Cohen table of the large effect size. The highest magnitude of the effect was 6.38 at a significant level of 0.00, which is estimated at a large magnitude (higher than 0.8). The lowest effect size was 0.77 and the significance level was 0.33, which is a small effect (less than 0.2).
Conclusion: It seems that parent education programs can be used as a suitable method for preventing extraversion disorders in educational and therapeutic centers.

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Aim: This study was to examine the effectiveness of education for parent with Adlerian approach in reducing feeling of guilt and improving psychological well-being in children with depression. The method of this research was quasi experimental with pre-test/post-test design, with a control group. The statistical population consisted of all sixth-grade students in elementary school of Kamyaran, Kurdistan, Iran during the academic year 2017-2018. Using randomized cluster sampling, two schools (for boys and girls)  were selected and 60 parents whose children showed signs of depression were placed into experimental and control groups. The experimental group went through 8 ninety-minute sessions of parent education with Adlerian approach. In both groups, parents’ children answered two questionnaires that were designed based on Ryff’s psychological well-being scales (2002) and Izonk’s guilt and shame scales (2007). The data was analyzed with mixed-design analysis of variance. Accordingly, the findings have shown that the average scores of post-test and follow-up of the feelings of guilt for students in theexperimental group decreased and their psychological well-being improved significantly. Therefore, parent education that employs Adlerian approach has been effective in decreasing guilt in depressed children and improving their psychological well-being
 

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Aim: Child abuse is one of the problems facing humanity. Families must be trained to distinguish the differences between parenting attitudes with harmful attitudes about children. This study aimed to investigate the comparison and recognition of parents with and without a college education about a variety of child abuse. Methods: This was a qualitative study based on semi-structured interviews and the research population included 28 people (parents) with and without college education which were selected through purposive sampling. Results: parental knowledge about the type of child abuse (physical, emotional, sexual, and neglect) were examined in two different tables and in two groups with and without a college education and also knowledge and awareness of the risk factors and the consequences of child abuse provided in separate tables by considering college education and concepts and the main expressions is classified using open axial and selective coding. Findings: Based on conducted interviews, the recognition of physical abuse in both groups with and without a college education is equally high, but with the exception that the parental knowledge about the scope of types of child abuse is more in the group with college education  than the other group. In this study, parents without a college education in their parenting methods relied considerably  on physical abuse. Also knowledge of emotional abuse is high in parents with a college education, but there is awareness of emotional neglect among parents with a university education due to their education and employment. There is knowledge about sexual harassment in both groups with the exception that the information and awareness of sexual harassment among parents with a college education is much higher. Another significant point in this research was emotional neglect, due to preoccupation of parents with the virtual world in today's age. Conclusions: It may be concluded that the factor of education can be effective in recognition of types of child abuse. One interesting point was that most college-educated parents used third-person in their sentences, such that it appeared these parents did not use abusive behaviors in their parenting, but are aware of what constitutes abusive behavior for other parents, or they intelligently resisted self-disclosing. On the other hand, majority of parents without college education seemed to use sentences that pointed to their own behaviors and reactions in relation to their children, showing less resistance, talking more about their objective and personal experiences.
 

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Aim: A mental disorder known as anorexia is a relatively common disorder in the recent decades  and has affected many people, especially young girls. This study aims to predict the relationship between anorexia as the independent variable and family relations, self control, and alexithymia as predictor variables. Methods: This study is a descriptive-correlational type. The study sample consisted of 109 women in the city of Shiraz who were selected through convenience sampling. Anorexia mental disorder was measured using questionnaires from Garner and Garfinkel (1979), parental bonding were measured using questionnaires parental bonding by Parker et al. (1979),Self-control was measured using a self-control scale Grasmick (1993) and alexithymia was measured using the Toronto alexithymia (1986).The data was analyzed by stepwise multiple regressions test. Findings The findings showed that, impulsively is one of the sub-scales of self-control  (β =-0/24 , p<0/05) and the extreme support is a parental bonding based sub-scale (β =0/23 , p<0/05) predicted anorexia disorder. Meanwhile Alexithymia cannot predict anorexia disorder. Conclusion: Based on these findings, it can be concluded that efforts to regulate impulsivity and reduce extreme support in family relationships are effective in preventing from anorexia nervosa.
 

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Aim: Ethics, that is, a permanent endurance of good moral qualities in the form of "Manesh" in human beings, which can not be achieved through mere moral education. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to obtain an ethics-based approach to parenting. Methods: For this purpose, in the first part of the study, we examined and explained the definition and principles of ethics- based training from the perspective of Allameh Tabataba'i with hermeneutic research method and in the last part, practical paths for internalizing morality in children were presented. Results: The findings showed that principles of ethics-based training contains of 5  affirmative axis : “Moral stability”, “communicability of action”, “awareness”, “ being Practical Man” , “ motivation” and 2 underlie axis include of: “inheritance of ethics” , “ peripheral communicability “.Conclusion:  This principles can be applied for presenting the Parenting model with the centrality of Manesh Training.

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Aim: This research investigates the effectiveness of mindful parenting training on mental health and parenting competence for mothers of children with special needs. Methods: This quasi-experimental research was performed using pretest/post-test and control group and statistical population included all of the mothers of children with special needs in Dezful who were studying at exceptional schools during the years 2016-2017. A total of 49 mothers were selected through convenience sampling method and  put into two experimental (25) and control (24) groups. control group. The pretest was implemented for both groups. The experimental group had nine 90-minute educational classes about mindful parenting. Following the educational classes,  the post-test was implemented. The surveys used in this research included Symptoms Checklist 90-Revised (SCL-90-R) and Parenting Sense of Competence (PSOC). Data were analyzed using analysis of covariance. Findings: The results indicated the effectiveness of mindful parenting training on mental health and parenting competence on mothers of children with special needs (p < 0.05). Conclusion: This method is effective and useful to improve the mental health of families with children with special needs.