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Hossein Hajbabaei
Quarterly Journal of Social Work
1735-451x
1735-451x
2017-03
5
4
12
5
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The Quality of Love and Sexual Satisfaction Survey Among Loyal and Unfaithful Married Men
Anahita Khodabakhshikoolaee
anna_khodabakhshi@yahoo.com, a.khodabakhshid@khatam.ac.ir
1
Spide Bahrami
2
Hamid Rasstak
3
4
تهران- میدان ونک- خ ملاصدرا- خ شیراز شمالی- ک حکیم اعظم- دانشگاه خاتم
Introduction: Marital unfaithfulness is a terrible issue for the couples and families; and it is a painful phenomenal in couples relationship. The purpose of this article is to discover the difference of the quality of love and sexual satisfaction among committed and uncommitted married men.
Methods: This study was a descriptive-comparative research. As the sample of this research, two-hundred married men who were attended to counseling and social work clinics due to marital problems; were randomly selected and assigned to two loyal and unfaithful groups (each group hundred men) by cluster sampling method. Two questionnaires including; Larson Sexual Satisfaction Scale (twenty-five items) and Sternberg Quality of Love questionnaire (forty-five items) were used as data collecting tools.
Results: The results indicated that there was a significant difference between the quality of love and sexual satisfaction in loyal and unfaithful married men.(P<0.05)
Conclusions: Finding showed that men who benefit less from dimensions of love and have lower degree of sexual satisfaction, are more probable to had unfaithful relationship. The findings also revealed that the quality of love and sex satisfaction were playing key role in couples relationships. Therefore, it seems these variables are essential one to be investigate by marital counselors and therapists to help the couples with loyalty issue.
http://socialworkmag.ir/article-1-177-en.pdf
Quality of Love
Sexual Satisfaction
Unfaith
Men
per
Hossein Hajbabaei
Quarterly Journal of Social Work
1735-451x
1735-451x
2017-03
5
4
13
24
article
The Comparison of Quality of Mother-Child Relationship and Anger Self-Regulation Skill Between Mothers of Normal and with ADHD Students
Asghar Jafari
Aa_jafari@sbu.ac.ir
1
Mahasti Samadi Javaheri
2
Fatemeh Hesampour
fatemeh.hesampour@yahoo.com
3
Introduction: According to evidence based on researchs, mothers’ cognitive-behavioral skills and interaction with their children is one of the most important factor in occurrence of ADHD. So Present study aimed to compare the quality of mother-child relationship and anger self-regulation skill between mothers of normal and with ADHD children.
Methods: This study was a causal comparative research. forty-two children between seven to twelve years old with ADHD were selected by available sampling from students who refered to counseling centers; and form normal students in Tehran; forty children between seven to twelve years old were selected by multiple cluster sampling, and their mothers answered to questionnaires. Data were collected by questionnaires of mother-child relationship and anger self-regulation skill and were analyzed by t-student.
Results: Findings indicated that there is significant difference in the quality of mother-child relationship and anger self-regulation skill between mothers of normal and with ADHD children. The interaction style of acceptance and anger self-regulation skill in mothers of students with ADHD were less than mothers of normal students; and the non-efficient styles of rejection, over indulgence, overprotection in mothers of students with ADHD were more than mothers of normal students.(P<0/01)
Conclusions: The results of research provide some evidence to suggest that children with ADHD can’t internalize effective behavioral patterns and don’t experience ability of control of impulsive behaviors and mental processes. Therefore it is recommended for preventing and treatment ADHD promote the styles of efficient interaction and anger self-regulation skill in mothers of children with ADHD.
http://socialworkmag.ir/article-1-201-en.pdf
Mother-Child Relationship
Anger Self-Regulation
ADHD
per
Hossein Hajbabaei
Quarterly Journal of Social Work
1735-451x
1735-451x
2017-03
5
4
31
25
article
The Effectiveness of Behavioral Activation Therapy on Depression Symptoms and Cognitive-Behavioral Avoidance for Students
Ali Mohammad Valian
aliyan1604@gmail.com
1
Mansour Sudani
sodani_m@scu.ac.ir
2
Khadija Sharalinia
k.shiralinia@scu.ac.ir
3
Reza Khojasteh Mehr
khojasteh_r@scu.ac.ir
4
Introduction: One of the common psychological problems among dormitory students is depression and its symptoms. The aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of group behavioral activation (BA) on depression and cognitive-behavioral avoidance in University student.
Methods: This study is a experimental design study with a pretest/posttest and follow-up with a control group. Sixty dormitory students of Andimesh were randomly selected by availability sampling method and randomly assigned to a BA tratment group (n=30) and a wait-list control group(n=30).The treatment group received eight-weekly BA sessions. The Beck depression inventory and The Cognitive–Behavioral Avoidance Scale (CBAD) were used as outcome measures, before and after the intervention with a one-month follow-up. Data analyzed with multivariate analysis of covariance.
Results: The results showed that behavioral activation therapy was effective in reducing symptoms of depression (P<0.01, F=11.26) and cognitive-behavioral avoidance (P<0.05, F=7.02).
Conclusions: Results showed that behavioral activation therapy on depression symptoms, and cognitive-behavioral avoidance was effective. Given the efficacy of BA treatment on depression symptoms and cognitive-behavioral avoidance, BA therapy could be an alternative for the clients that seek for effective and short-time treatment in university counseling centers.
http://socialworkmag.ir/article-1-215-en.pdf
Behavioral Activation Therapy
Depression
Cognitive-Behavioral Avoidance
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Hossein Hajbabaei
Quarterly Journal of Social Work
1735-451x
1735-451x
2017-03
5
4
39
32
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The Effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Based Treatment on Meaning of Life and Feeling Lonely of Adolescents in the Alternative Care Center
Zahra Javanbakht
javanbakht.z1367@gmail.com
1
Gholamreza Manshey
smanshaee@yahoo.com
2
Introduction: Family plays the most important educational role in the societies, in a way that parents as the fundamental pillars of this institution provide the social and emotional growth of the childs. What highlights the family role is the negative developmental, educational, behavioral, social and personality effectson children. The present study aimed to survey the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment on the meaning of life and the feeling lonely of parentless or with irresponsible parents adolescents in the alternative care.
Methods: This study was a clinical trial with control group. Thestatistical population of this study was included all of the parentless or with irresponsible parents adolescent in alternative care Isfahan in 2015.Test group received eight sessions of one-hour group therapy based on acceptance and commitment while the control group received no intervention. Data were collected using the attitude UCLA Loneliness Scale (Russell, 1980) and the Meaning of Life Scale (Wong, 2012). Repeated measures analysis of variance analysis was used to evaluate outcomes.
Results: Thirty parentless or with irresponsible parents adolescent were participated in this research (test group, n=15 and control groups, n=15). Data analysis of the study showed that the treatment based on acceptance and commitment has significantly reduced the loneliness filling among the test group members and has increased the meaning of life among them.(P≤0.001) These changes were stable in the follow-up stage.
Conclusions: Treatment based on acceptance and commitment increases the compliance power and commitment to the future by increasing the sense of acceptance towards the unwelcome events of life and increases the amount of adaptability and hope. Therefore, this intervention could be used for increasing meaning of life and the loneliness feeling the among this group.
http://socialworkmag.ir/article-1-165-en.pdf
Acceptance
Commitment
Feeling Lonely
Meaning of Life
Alternative Care
per
Hossein Hajbabaei
Quarterly Journal of Social Work
1735-451x
1735-451x
2017-03
5
4
48
40
article
The Effectiveness of Neuro-Developmental Treatment Intervention on Motor Skills and Activities of Daily Living of Preschool Children with Down Syndrome
Soheila Ahmadi
ss.aahmadii@gmail.com
1
Ghorban Hemati Alamdarloo
ghemati@shirazu.ac.ir
2
Setareh Shojaee
bahareman@shirazu.ac.ir
3
Introduction: The aims of this study was to investigation of the effect of neuro-developmental therapy on motor skills and activities of daily living of preschool children with down syndrome.
Methods: Study procedure was quasi-experimental with pretest-posttest design with control group. The statistical population of this research includes all preschool children with down syndrome in Shiraz city in academic year 2014-2015. The sample size was twenty-four children with down syndrome whome were selected by in convenience sampling method and randomly assigned into experimental and control groups. Such as each group consist of 12 students. Both groups assessed pre-test.The experimental group received neuro-developmental therapy in fifteen sessions while control group did not. After completion of intervention period for experimental group; the post test was administered for both groups. The Lincoln-Ozretski’s Motor Development Scale and Activities Scale for Kids were administered to assess the motor skills and activities of daily living.
Results: The data analyses by ANCOVA showed that there were significantly increase in the mean scores of motor skills and activities of daily living in experimental group.
Conclusions: Findings indicated that neuro-developmental therapy lead to improve motor skills and activities of daily living of preschool children with down syndrome. Therefore, it is proposed to design and implement neuro-developmental therapy in order to increase of motor skills and activities of daily activity of preschool children with down syndrome.
http://socialworkmag.ir/article-1-295-en.pdf
Neuro-developmental Therapy
Motor Skills
Children with Down syndrome
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Hossein Hajbabaei
Quarterly Journal of Social Work
1735-451x
1735-451x
2017-03
5
4
49
56
article
The Effectiveness of Social Group Work on the Quality of Life of Drug Consumer Clients
Esmayil Abbasi Zaghe
esmayil.abbasi@yahoo.com
1
Farhad Hasani
farhad94.hasani@yahoo.com
2
Bayan Saeidi
Bayansaeidi6562@gmail.com
3
Introduction: The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of social group work cognitive-behavioral stress management training on quality of life of drug consumer clients at Tehran Khavaran homeless shelter.
Methods: This semi-experimental study was performed in two groups (case and control) with two months follow up using pretest/posttest method. In this study fifty addicts in Tehran Khavaran homeless shelter were randomly assigned in two groups (case and control groups, twenty-five person in each group). The case group received fifteen session of cognitive behavioral stress management and control group did not receive any special treatment. All participants in this study were administered with SF-36 quality of life questionnaire at the beginning, end and two months after intervention. At the end data were collected and analyzed using covariance and covariance with repeated measures test.
Results: The results of the covariance test showed a significant difference between two groups level at posttest in several aspects of quality of life; including physical function, physical role limitations, bodily pain, general health, vitality, social functioning and mental health.The results of covariance with repeated measures test also showed a significant difference at follow up level in both physical pain and public health.
Conclusions: According to the results, it can be said that this intervention is effective on quality of life of studied people.
http://socialworkmag.ir/article-1-208-en.pdf
Stress Management
Quality of Life
Drug Consumer