Journal of Assessment and Research in Applied Counseling
Volume:4 Issue: 4, 2023

Drawing a scientific map as one of the techniques of scientometrics can make people aware of the state of published researches, display the relationship of the sub-fields of the subjects in a visual form and introduce the most influential subject areas of the scientific field. The aim of the current research was to draw a scientific map of the field of human health and growth using Web of Science data.

The current research was conducted as an applied research using the scientometric method and social network analysis indicators. The research community included all the information sources indexed in the Web of Science database in the field of human health and growth, amounting to 18,188 works. To collect research data, keywords (human health and development, human health, human development, human study) were searched for each through the Web of Science database, and the data was entered into Excel. Vis viewer software was used for network analysis.

The results of the research showed that in terms of the centrality of the categories of health, disease, human health, sustainable growth, human rights, nursing and care, human development, obesity, growth and education, the most centrality index and in terms of the density and clustering coefficient of the health categories, human development, human rights and nursing and care were more important than other categories.

The general results of the research showed that the model presented in the research is a thematic map of the field of human health and growth, which causes the researchers to gain more knowledge about the status of the subjects and the relationship between them and information about thematic gaps and can prevent rework in the research.

The present study was conducted to determine the effect of communication skills training on corona anxiety in students of medical sciences branch.

This study was a quasi-experimental with a pretest-posttest design with a control group. The research population was students of Islamic Azad University of Tehran Medical Sciences Branch in the 2021-2022 academic years. The research sample was 170 people who were selected by simple random sampling method and randomly replaced by two groups of 85 people including experimental and control groups. The experimental group 4 sessions of 120-minute for one month underwent the communication skills training and the control group did not receive any training during this period and remained on the waiting list for training. The research instruments were demographic information form and anxiety inventory scale. Data were analyzed by tests of chi-square, independent t and univariate analysis of covariance in SPSS-26 software.

The findings of chi-square, independent t tests showed that the experimental and control groups did not significantly difference in terms of gender and mean age (P>0.05). Also, the findings results of univariate analysis of covariance test showed that communication skills training reduced anxiety in medical students (P<0.001).

The results indicated the effective role of communication skills training on reducing anxiety in medical students. Therefore, health professionals can use the communication skills training method along with other effective training methods to improve the psychological health specially reducing and controlling anxiety in medical science student.

Despite having natural intelligence, students with reading disorders do not perform age-appropriately in various academic skills such as listening, reading, writing, mathematics, and problem solving. Thus, there are many problems in the field of reading words correctly, reading speed and eloquence, and oral reading comprehension, and these problems have harmful effects on their academic performance as well as their social interactions. This study aimed to investigate attributional retraining intervention's effectiveness on academic burnout and academic procrastination of students with dyslexia.

The current research design was applied in terms of its purpose and its method was quasi-experimental with a pre-test and post-test design and a two-month follow-up period. The statistical population of the study included all children aged 7 to 10 with reading learning disabilities who had referred to rehabilitation centers in Isfahan city in 2022. Using available sampling method, 30 people were selected and randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups. The research tools included Berso et al.'s academic burnout questionnaire (1997), Savari's academic procrastination questionnaire (2011) and Karimi Nouri and Moradi's reading and dyslexia test (2008). Analysis of variance with repeated measurements was used to analyze the data.

The results of the analysis of the findings showed that the intervention based on attributionalary retraining has a significant effect on the academic burnout and academic procrastination of the experimental group, and its effectiveness was stable in the follow-up phase.

Based on the findings, it can be said that to reduce the academic burnout and academic procrastination of students with reading learning disorder, the intervention method based on attributionalary retraining can be used. Therefore, it is suggested to use this method in child and adolescent counseling centers and rehabilitation centers.

Couple therapists believe that marital conflict is caused by inconsistency between husband and wife in the type of needs and how to satisfy them, self-centeredness, differences in desires, behavioral schemas and irresponsible behavior towards marital relationship and marriage.The purpose of this research was to compare the effectiveness of comparing the effectiveness of schema mode cards and the effectiveness of strength-based counseling on resilience in conflicted couples.

The purpose of the present research was applied and its method was quasi-experimental with a pre-test and post-test design with two experimental groups and a control group and a two-month follow-up period. The statistical population of the research included all the couples who referred to the counseling centers of the 3rd district of Tehran in the second half of the year 2021, and 30 couples were selected randomly in two experimental groups (10 couples each) and a control group (10 couples) ) were assigned. The research tools included Marital Conflict Questionnaire (MCQ), Connor and Davidson's (2003) Resilience Scale, Tabataeifar et al's. (2022) Schema Mode Cards training package, and strength-based counseling method conducted by Darbani and Parsakia (2022).

The findings indicate that the training of schema mode cards was effective on resilience. Also, the strength-based counseling was also effective on resilience, and the effectiveness of both approaches was stable in the follow-up phase according to Bonferroni's follow-up test. The results of the data analysis show that there is no significant difference between the effectiveness of teaching schema mode cards and strength-based counseling on resilience, and both are equally effective (p<0.05).

Based on the available findings, it can be concluded that to increase resilience in conflicted couples, both methods of teaching schema mode cards and strength-based counseling can be used, and there is no significant difference between the two in the impact on the resilience of conflicted couples.

Despite decades of research, there is no consensus on the factors that explain the relationship between drug abuse and criminal behavior. Evolving sophistication in research methodology has identified factors associated with drug abuse and crime involvement. However, exploration of the specific factors that contribute to initiating, maintaining, and ceasing drug abuse and criminal behavior over time, in culture, and in social context remains largely unknown.

In this research, the grounded theory approach was used to develop an explanatory model based on the reported experiences of 30 men who were referred to addiction treatment centers, all of whom had a history of participating in drug abuse and crime.

Using thematic content analysis, a distinct model emerged. The model portrays drug abuse and crime involvement as a lifestyle based on a bio-psycho-social framework. The path model describes a combination of person-centered and context-specific constructs as influencing factors in the etiology, persistence, stability, and re-engagement. This model was used in case studies to compare and contrast the application of the path model with the theories in the literature.

The research showed that the relationship between drug abuse and criminal behavior includes complex personal, cultural, and social factors that form the drug-crime lifestyle instead of a simple causal model. Furthermore, existing theoretical models interact to explain individuals' experiences at distinct periods during their involvement in drug-crime lifestyles. The proposed bio-psycho-social model found common underlying psychological vulnerabilities across the two cultural samples that contribute to involvement in drug-crime lifestyles. However, different social, familial, cultural, and societal factors affect communication throughout life. This complexity emphasizes the need for multimodal and systemic treatment methods that include family and culture and the need for psychosocial support services associated with treatment provided among drug-abusing offenders for reintegration into society.

Today, in the world, there is a kind of sexual intercourse between couples that are Domination/Submission and Masochism/Sadism. In scientific and general literature, the term BDSM is used for these sorts of relationships, generally a type of power exchange or pain in the marriage between couples that leads to sexual arousal and sexual satisfaction. Previous literature has a pathological approach to this, but the focus of research in this field has shifted from pathology to depathologizing. The purpose of this study is to review articles related to domination/submission and Masochism/Sadism between couples.

The present study was an analytical review study used to collect data from articles and books in reputable scientific databases.

Previous studies have shown that the attitude of the community and the therapists toward these types of relationships and stigmas has been negative. On the other hand, these relationships are related to personality traits, marital satisfaction, and sexual satisfaction. For example, the findings indicated that these people were more extroverted, more open than experienced, and were high in education and job.

According to the findings, it can be said that this requires more articles, especially in Persian. Experts are also suggested to include the findings described in their work at the beginning of diagnosing and treating people who tend to have this type of relationship and examine the disorder's symptoms more accurately for diagnosis.