Journal of Preventive Counselling
Volume:1 Issue: 2, Oct 2020

The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between basic psychological needs and achievement goals and students' adjustment. The research method was correlation, and the study’s population included all students of Kharzmi University. The sample consisted of 200 students (i.e., 100 females and 100 males) who were selected through convenience sampling method. The instrument included Basic Psychological Needs scale (Guardia, Deci & Ryan, 2000), Midgley’s Goal Orientations scale (GOS) (1998) and Farahbkhsh’s College Adjustment scale (CAS). The data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics, including Pearson correlation coefficient, and multiple linear regression. The result showed that there were significant positive relationships between the psychological needs, autonomy, competence and social, academic, emotional adjustment and self-discovery. Moreover, there were significant positive relationships between mastery goal achievement, social, academic and emotional adjustment, attachment to the field of study or the university and self-discovery. In addition, there was a positive relationship between approach-performance achievement and attachment to the field and the university. The results also showed that none of the dimensions of psychological needs and achievement goals could explain the students’ adjustment.

In digital world with spread of use of information and communication technology, online activities are the important part of daily adolescents’ activities and their protection from harms is a serious challenge for parents. The aim of this study is to qualitative investigation of mothers' protection strategies for control and management of adolescents’ online activities. Qualitative method was used to conduct the study and data were collected by using purposeful sampling and semi-structured interviews. The sample of this study was 10 efficient mothers. The data were analyzed by using grounded theory method (Strauss and Corbin approach). Findings showed that mothers with high level of cyber literacy who have regular online activities, and conduct thoughts and behaviors of their children with informing and ruling, have more positive effectiveness in protection. Indeed, according to mothers' reports, management of parent-adolescent relationship, peer relations, and entertainment have a role in reduction on harms.

The aim of this research is to discuss the concept of human being as a subject beyond rationalism from Deleuze and Perls viewpoint and to define it in the psychological realm of empiricism, through reading a play based on empiricism with Gestalt therapy. The sampling format in this study is goal-oriented, gathering information by library and field study method. there is the way for cognition through the experience, which forms the knowledge of the subject, too. This attribute helps us to prioritize our emotion and accordingly our body, and this leads to a situation in which we maintain our attention on the immediate experience, by increasing recognition of mental events in the present moment and this is what existentialism asks these for and is the exact role of human required in Gestalt therapy. the result showed that the concept of man from the perspective of Gilles Deleuze, with regard to his definition for the position of subject who is in the process of becoming human-animal due to the subject being pushed back from centrality (subjectivism) and Perls' definition of the human position in Gestalt psychology as well as with explanation of the common points in Woyzeck can be studied because the emphasis of this work is on the concept of human.

The aim of the current study was to investigate the effectiveness of Wells’ meta-cognitive therapy on improvement of the level of emotional intelligence on male students of high school in Khoramabad, during the academic year of 2018-2019. The statistical Population of the study consisted of all the male students of high schools in Khoramabad. The study sample consisted of 30 students that were selected by multiphasic cluster sampling. The 30 selected subjects were randomly assigned into two groups of control and experimental; the experimental group received 7 sessions of Wells’ meta-cognitive therapy. Both groups were evaluated in three stages of pretest-posttest and follow-up. The study instruments consisted of Bar-On Emotional Intelligence-Inventory. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistical and inferential statistical and using the SPSS software. The Statistical results indicated that Wells’ meta-cognitive therapy was effective on improvement of the emotional intelligence level. Findings obtained from analysis of variance with repeated measures indicated that Wells’ metacognitive therapy is effective on improving the level of emotional intelligence of male students in high schools in Khorramabad (P≥0.001). According to the results of this study, the Wells’ metacognitive therapy can be used to improve the level of emotional intelligence of students.

The aim of the present research was to study the effectiveness of strength-oriented family therapy on hope, anxiety, stress and depression among mothers of children with cancer. The research method was quasi-experimental with experimental and control groups by pre-test and post-test. The statistical population included all mothers of children with cancer in Ardabil city of Iran in 2015. A group of 30 mothers were selected by convenience sampling method, and they were placed randomly in two groups (15 persons in the experimental group and 15 persons in the control group). All participants completed the Persian version of the Herth Hope Index (HHI-Persian version) and Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS). The experimental group received the strength-oriented intervention in 10 sessions. Multivariate analysis of covariance was applied to analyze the data. Results indicated that the strength-oriented family therapy causes a significant change in increase hope and reduce stress and depression in the experimental group. But there is no significant difference between groups in anxiety.

The aim of the present study is to compare and critique the moral principles of Albert Ellis's theory (REBT) in the light of Islamic ethics. The method of the present study is analytical-descriptive and the sampling Method in this study is goal-oriented. Necessary information was collected in a library manner by studying sources and books. The method of analysis has been content analysis. The results showed that Ellis's ethical principles are: ethical non-realism, pleasure-seeking, individualism, sensuality and no standard for good and bad behavior. However, all these are not acceptable from the point of view of Islam, as Islam believes the standard for the right and wrong is clear and distinct; pleasure is not the only standard of right and wrong behavior, pleasures are not merely worldly, and the ultimate goal of life and creation is to reach the nearness of God. All human behaviors are ethical if done with the intention and purpose of the nearness of God.