فصلنامه خانواده پژوهی
پیاپی 25 (بهار 1390)

The purpose of this present study is to investigate the existing relationships among interpretative indicators in children’s family drawings. The population of the study included 57 children (18 boys and 39 girls) aged between 4.5 and 8 years old. They were selected through convenient sam -pling and they all took family drawing test. Based on the correlation analysis, the results of the study revealed a positive correlation between hidden Oedipaland self-valuation indicators, aluation of mother and valuation of others, drawing real family and self elimination, aggressive reactions and self elimination, depressive reactions and self elimination, and parent elimination and self elimination. Gender differentces had no significant role in mother devaluation and the use of color. However gender difference had an influence in sex differentiation and drawing real family. The results of the study are discussed based on psychoanalytic theories and also the findings of previous studies.

The present study investigated the effect of visual arts on teaching coping strategies to abused children with physical and psychological signs of disorders. The sample included 7 annoyed children dwelling in a 24-hour Behzisti center; the participants were selected through convenient sampling. In this semi-experimental research, Children’s Coping Strategies Checklist (CCSC) and Disease Diagnostics Questionnaire (CSI-4) were used for data collection. Since the main objective of this research is investigating the effect of visual arts on coping strategies to abused children, independent and paired sample t-test were used for data analysis. The results show that using visual arts has a significant effect on the teaching of coping strategies to abused children.

The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of therapeutic storytelling (TST), behavioral parent training (BPT), and behavioral parent training followed therapeutic storytelling in reducing externalizing problems among children. The Child Behavioral Checklist (CBCL) was administered to a sample of 352 mothers of male primary school students in Rasht. 36 children who achieved the highest scores in CBCL externalizing scale were randomly assigned to three TST, BPT and TSTӴ groups. The interventions were held for 4 weeks. Quantitative data were analyzed using one - way ANOVA, post - hoc test (Scheffe), and pretest - posttest (t - test). There were significant differences between the output created by TST, BPT and TSTӴ groups. Children who attended the therapeutic storytelling sessions showed the smallest reduction in externalizing problems and the effectiveness of add–on TST with BPT was supported. Both BPT and BPT䴤 interventions were effective but no significant change was found on measures of TST group. The findings provide practical support for prevention and treatmentof children’s externalizing problems.

The aim of the present study is first to investigate the relationship between adolescents’ depression and the indicators associated with depression found in the Tree-Drawing Test, and second to use this test as an instrument to track preliminary depression disorder. 200 girls, (14 to 17 years old), have been chosen from junior-high school of Tehran through a multi-stage sampling. Both Beck Depression Test and Tree- Drawing Test were administered among the students. A Chi-square test was also run to analyze the existing data. The results also showed that depression signs including drawing thick trunk (near the root), injured trunk, closed branches, falling leaves, using dark colors and drawing trees without leaves and other corresponding signs of depression like spiral shadowing, diagonal shadowing, root drawing, drawing of thin and slight leaves, and drawing of sharp and hard branches have a positive correlation with depression observed among the participants.

The present study investigates the effect of psychodrama on increase in the forgiveness of others and selfesteem of female adolescents with divorced parents. This study is a pre-test, post-test and follow-up design for both experimental and control groups. From community of female adolescents with divorced parents under the support of Imam Khomeini Committee. (aged from14 to 17) and were divided into experimental and control group. Forgiveness Questionnaire and Pope Self-esteem Questionnaire were used in the pre-test stage for both groups. The participants in the experimental group received 10 two-hour sessions of psychodrama and the control group was kept with no intervention. After one month, for follw up two questionnaires were applied for both groups. Repeated measure analysis of variance. Were used the results indicated that the significant effect of psychodrama on forgiveness and selfesteem and, family, social, physical self-esteem but it had no impact on the educational self-esteem of the female adolescents.

This study examined the effect of psychodrama on emotional self-regulation and mental health of female students of junior-high school in Karaj. The sample was chosen after completing “General Health Questionnaire” (Goldberg,1927) and “Emotional Intelligence Scale” (Schutte,1998) which were administered junior high school students. 20 of them who achieved a score higher than the cut-off score were chosen through cluster sampling and were randomly divided into experimental and control groups (each consisted of 10 students). The experimental group was exposed to 10 sessions of psychodrama techniques and control group receive no intervention. The data was analyzed based on statistical method for analysis of co-variance. The post-test results revealed significant differences between the two groups in terms of emotional self-regulation & the level of anxiety among adolescents. The results also revealed that psychodrama has a meaningful effect on the increase of emotional self-regulation, and the decrease of anxiety among adolescents. However, this method had no significant influence on general mental health of either experimental or control groups.

The aim of the current study was to investigate the impact of pottery training on the reduction of attention deficit in mentally retarded adolescents. In this study, a pretest-posttest design with control group and randomized sampling was used. 80 mentally retarded adolescents between the age of 10 and 16 were selected by means of cluster sampling procedure. These individuals were divided into two equal groups and were randomly assigned into experimental and control groups. The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children and a Scale to Measure Attention Deficit Disorders of children and adolescents were used to gather the data. The statistical analysis of covariance was used. The results indicated that the effect of intervention was significant (p

The aim of present research is to study the relationship among identity, personal and family related factors and individual’s tendency towards watching certain movie genres. The sample of the study includes 219 students of Shahid Beheshti University. They completed The Movie Genre Preference and The Extended Objective Measure of Ego Identity (EOMEIS-2). The data were analyzed through correlation, multiple analysis of variance and independent t-test. The results revealed significant relationship between different kinds of identity, personal and family related factors and certain movie genre preference.