نشریه مشاوره و روان درمانی خانواده
سال دوم شماره 4 (پیاپی 8، زمستان 1391)

The present study was carried out in order to comparison and investigation of the effectiveness of cognitive-behavior therapy and drug-therapy in treating premature ejaculation men referred to Ahvaz city therapy centers. 39 men with premature ejaculation were selected using structured clinical interview for DSM-TV-TR based on premature ejaculation dysfunction and cut of point in Premature Ejaculation Diagnostic Tool (PEDT). Subjects were assigned groups (cognitive-behavior therapy, drug therapy and control) through sampling random method. Data were collected in three stages (pretest, post test and follow-up) through Premature Ejaculation Diagnostic Tool (PEDT), Sexual Quality of Life Questionnaire-Male and stopwatch. Results of ANCOVA in post-test stage by controlling pre-test showed that cognitive-behavior therapy and drug therapy are significantly efficient on treatment of premature ejaculation. But there is not difference between cognitive-behavior therapy and drug therapy in treatment of premature ejaculation. Results of follow-up stage showed that the effects of cognitive-behavior therapy were stable but effects of drug therapy were not stable. Also, the effects of cognitive-behavior therapy were more stable than drug therapy. Cognitive-behavior therapy and drug therapy have appropriate efficacy in the treatment of men suffering from premature ejaculation significantly but effects of Drug Therapy are not stable.

The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of transactional analysis group therapy on increasing marital adjustment, couples’ positive feelings, marital satisfaction, intimacy and reducing the instability of marriage - probability of divorce, depression, and anxiety in couples with emotional divorce experience. The present study was done by semi-experimental method and design of pretest, posttest and follow-up with control group. The study population consisted of all couples referring to counseling and psychological services clinic in Mohr, Lamerd and Firouzabad cities for technical assistance in the field of marital problems in the first half of 1390. A sample of 40 patients (20 couples) was recruited and assigned randomly to two groups (intervention group and a control group).. The experimental group underwent 18 sessions of transactional analysis (each session 2 hours); the control group did not receive any treatment. Both control and experimental groups which were composed of eight couples after the initial infusion, were measured using clinical interview, index of marital satisfaction, intimacy scale, marital instability index, positive feelings questionnaire, dyadic adjustment scale, Beck depression inventory, Beck anxiety inventory in the pretest, posttest and follow-up (three months later) sessions. Data was analyzed using covariance analysis (MANCOVA). The results indicated the effectiveness of transactional analysis group therapy on increasing marital adjustment, couples’ positive feelings, marital satisfaction, intimacy and reducing the instability of marriage - probability of divorce, depression, and anxiety in couples with emotional divorce experience; and the condition of couples in experimental group in comparison with control group improved in post test and follow up sessions in measured constructs. The transactional analysis intervention and training can be used as an interventional program to prevent and treat emotional divorce and increase marital skills.

Considering the importance of peaceful relations with family in law, this study strived to investigate the efficacy of cognitive–behavioral group therapy on negative emotions towards family in law and marital satisfaction.

The research was a quasi experimental one with a pre-test, post-test and a control group. The population were married women in District 4 of Isfahan city who responded to the call of researcher for participate in cognitive behavioral group therapy. 30 women were selected from those who earned quorum scores in researcher made negative emotions towards family in law questionnaire and were randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups. Negative emotions towards family in law questionnaire and Index of Marital Satisfaction (IMS) were completed by both groups. The experimental group received 8,2 hour sessions of cognitive-behavioral group therapy whereas the control group did not receive any intervention. Post-tests completed by both groups. Data were analyzed via multivariate analysis.

Results revealed that cognitive behavioral group therapy had significant effectiveness (p<0/05) in reduction of negative emotions towards family in law and increase of marital satisfaction

It can be concluded that cognitive behavioral group therapy can be helpful in reducing negative emotions towards family in law and enhance the life quality of couples.

Nowadays in most countries, especially in Iran, divorce is increasing & this has negative effects on couples, children & society, this study was done with the purpose of the survey of effectiveness of counseling integrated pattern for divorce prevention on life quality & lapse of divorce in the couples on the threshold of divorce. This study was semi experimental, pretest- posttest with experimental & nonequivalent control group. Statistical population was all the couples who were applicant of divorce and were referral of Family counseling center of Sanandaj’s court of justice in 1390. 16 subjects were randomly selected of applicant couples and were randomly located in two groups, experimental and control group. Tools of this investigation were quality life questionnaire and questionnaire which was invented by investigator. ANCOVA and X2 were used for analysis of dates. The results ANCOVA showed that pattern of divorce prevention could increase the quality of experimental group significantly (p≤0/001). Also results showed that lapse of divorce in applicant couples of this program was more than control group (p≤0/01). The findings of this study supports the effect of counseling integrated pattern for decrease of divorce and increase of couples quality of life, so it can be used in divorce prevention counseling’ s program and solving of marital conflicts.

Since family is an important factor in human history and has an eminent role in his individual performance, the aim of this study is to compare sensation seeking and family functioning among divorced, during divorce and non-divorced individuals. The method of the present study was Causal-Comparative. The statistical society was comprised of divorced and during divorced inhabitants of Tehran. The study sample included 451 divorced and 421 during divorced individuals, chosen by Stratified relative sampling from different courts of Tehran. Then, 500 people were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling (or matched) as the control group. The participants answered McMaster Family Functioning Assessment and Arndt sensation seeking scale. The data was analyzed by multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) and Scheffe post hoc test. Findings showed that sensation seeking and family function had significant differences, in 0/05 level, in all aspects among divorced, and during divorced and non-divorced subjects. This meant that divorced and during divorced subjects had more sensation seeking and their family functioning were more imbalanced. The study findings implied that divorced and during divorced subjects had more sensation seeking and lower family functioning. Therefore, sensation seeking serves as a factor that makes a conflict between family executive system and non-socially accepted activities.

One important model for examining family functioning is family functioning McMaster model; the present study aims to determine the relationship between family functioning on the basis of this model, and personality disorders in students. This study was a descriptive correlative one. The study sample included 300 students from Razi University in Kermanshah which were selected using stratified random sampling. To gather data, Millon Personality questionnaire and family functioning questionnaire were used. Results showed that there is a negative and significant relationship between all the subscales of family functioning and family (relationship, role playing, emotional intercourse, problem solving, emotional accompaniment, behavioral control and overall performance), with personality disorders. According to the results, it can be said mental therapists and counselors who can benefit from family therapy for the treatment of personality disorders, must emphasis on the improvement of family functions.

The aim of this Research was examination of attachment styles and personality factors as predictors of divorce in normal and divorce applicant Couples in Yazd. The method of this research was correlation. The samples include 53 normal couples and 45 divorce applicant couples (total: 196 people). The divorced samples were selected by available sampling method from a group of divorce applicants and Court Clients, and a random multistage sampling method was used to select normal group. All sample couples were tested by close- relationship experience questionnaire (for testing attachment styles), NEO personality questionnaire and divorce potentially inventory. In spite of descriptive statistical methods, the discriminate analysis method was applied to analyze the data in this research. The Findings of the research confirmed hypothesis and demonstrated based on attachment styles and personality properties. It can predict the failure and success in marital relationship. This research can also be applied in clinical and counseling environment to help problematic cupules and couples on the threshold of marriage.

Arts, including literature have always reflected human anxieties and hopes. One of these anxieties is caused by the battle between the old and the new which was intensified with the advent of modernity. The anxiety of modernity was manifested by doubts, ambiguities and paradoxes in literature and the defeated, isolated and alienated character dominated modern literature. In modern literature, due to the excessive differentiation of the individuals, the family was represented as an unsafe place in which there existed no sincere interaction. This notion entered Persian literature in the third decade of the twentieth century and still exists to some extent. Besides reflecting Iran's historical experience, this paper demonstrates the capacity of literary texts to help express the psychotherapeutic theories and the interaction of the therapist and the subject. The method of this study is a combination of narrative semiotics and Murray Bowen's family systems. Accordingly, first the poem's artistic meanings have been decodes and the decoded message has been used in the analytical elements of Murray Bowen's theory. Furlough Farrokhzad's poetry includes many topics that indicate the anxiety of the modern world. One of the vivid examples of the expression of anxiety in the family is the poem "I Pity the Garden" which was published in the beginning of the 1960s. In this poem, the narrator uses direct and indirect characterization to verbally and visually depict those elements of people's static and dynamic identity that lead to the separation of individuals in a helpless family. Considering Murray Bowen's theory of family systems, one can argue that the family members, despite all their differentiation, have not reached "self-separation" in the proper sense of the theory. Also, the "triangles", according to which one includes the other in order to reduce the anxiety, has not occurred for any of the family members. Therefore, the family system is broken down and the members feed alone with each other.