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The purpose of the present research was to investigate the efficacy of stress inoculation training, in comparison with group social skills training, on psychological well-being of veterans’ daughters suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. The sample of the study included 45 veterans’ daughters  with post-traumatic stress disorder, who were selected through cluster random sampling from among the girls aged 14 to 18. The subjects were also randomly assigned to two experimental, groups undergoing group social skills training and stress inoculation training, and control groups, 15 adolescent girls in each group. This study was a comparative experimental one and pretest post-posttest, control group design was used. Following the two experimental groups underwent the intervention, Burumand Psychological Well-being Questionnaire, Ryff's Psychological well-being scale and researcher-made Demographical Information Questionnaires were used to collect the data. Then the data were analyzed by multivariate ANOVA. Results of the study indicated that stress inoculation training and group social skills training had a significant effect on psychological well-being of veterans’ daughters suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Furthermore, the results showed that stress inoculation training is more effective and influential than social skills group training.

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The purpose of this article was studied of the efficacy of transactional analysis group therapy upon improving problem-solving skills. This study was experimental with pretest-posttest design. Thirty clients who were referring to the Ferdowsi University Counseling and Psychology Clinic were chose based on screening method. In addition, were randomly divided two equal groups (15 participants): experimental and control groups. Problem-solving questionnaire was used collect data as well as the experimental intervention was TA group therapy that was administrated during two hours and weekly. For data analysis in the descriptive level mean and standard deviation were used and covariate method was used at the inference level (ANCOVA). The results suggest that the problem-solving skills in the experimental group significantly increased. Moreover, by the increase in subscales creative, confidence, control, and approach styles were observed. It concluded that the method of TA group therapy is effective and useful strategy in improving problem-solving skills.

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This study was an attempt to compare the multicultural counseling competencies of Tehran‘s counselors considering their ethnicity. These competencies were investigated based on the three dimensions of knowledge, awareness and skill which are based on the newest theory of multicultural counseling competencies. In this study, to collect the data, survey method and researcher-made questionnaire were used .Population of the study included all Tehran’s counselors who had the employment permit until 2012 and of this population, 298 counselors were selected as the samples through simple random sampling. Using Kruskal Wallis statistical test, the results showed that the counselors with Mazandarani ethnicity came in the first place in terms the degree of multicultural counseling knowledge and that the counselors with Gilaki ethnicity came in the last place in terms of the degree of multicultural counseling knowledge. Furthermore, no significant difference was seen among the counselors with different ethnicity concerning the degree of multicultural counseling awareness .As for the dimension of skill, the counselors with Turkman ethnicity came in the first place in terms of the degree of multicultural counseling skill and the counselors with Kurdish ethnicity came in the second place. Also, counselors with Gilaki ethnicity came in the last place in terms of the degree of multicultural counseling skill.

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The present research aimed to investigate the effectiveness of short-term and long-term life skills training in decreasing the aggression among the adolescents. The sample comprised 400 male and female students studying in the high schools of Karaj, who responded to two questionnaires of Life Skills and Aggression Questionnaire and based on their mean score were randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups (100 male and 100 female). Subsequent to ten life skills training sessions for the experimental group, both groups were reassessed by both of the questionnaires. Covariance analysis indicated that increase of life skills decreased the level of aggression among the individuals. In order to test out the stability of the training effects, two 30-individual groups with low and high scores were selected and were tested in terms of the research variables. Results demonstrated that in the first six month, the mean of groups decreased. However, this was desirable according to the psychological statistics. It's worth mentioning that, the weak group demonstrated a greater decrease. Furthermore, in the second six month, the weak group attended five training sessions which increased their level of life skills and decreased the level of aggression to a more considerable level as compared to the strong group which resulted in lower mean by the end of the training. It can be concluded that the repetition of the training with time interval increases the level of awareness and mastery of life skills and we can evidence higher decrease of aggression and more stability of the results

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  This research have been made to analyze how training strong parenting skills to mother effects on reduction of daughters conflict with mothers and increases adolescent girls mental health. This research is a kind of semi-test which it itself is a kind of pre-post test with control group. Statistical population of this research include female students of second and third grade in guidance school of city of Naeen. 30 mothers whom reported that their girls have many conflicts with them have been selected and randomly have been divided to two groups of test and control. Mental health questioner was completed by adolescent girl's two groups. The under studied group have been trained for parenting skills for 7 sessions. After training the post – testing test have been taken from both groups. The instruments which have been used in this research were a mental health questioner and a questioner about style of conflict solving. The data have been analyzed with co-variance multi- variant analysis. Results show that there is a meaningful difference between members of under studied groups in dependent variables (daughter conflict with mother and girl mental health) and all small scale of them. The results of this research show the importance of interventions based on the improvement of parenting skills on decreasing adolescent daughters conflicts with their mothers and increases adolescent girls mental health.  

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The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of psychosocial skills training package on stress and burnout among drivers. This study was a semi-experimental research with a pre-test and post-test design. The sample group was selected utilizing available sampling procedure and included 196 drivers of the Tehran city bus company. The participants were randomly divided into five groups. These drivers participated in psychosocial training for nine sessions twice a week. All the participants completed both the Job Stress Questionnaire and the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) as the pre-test and post-test. Data were analyzed multivariate analysis of variance with repeated measure.The Results showed that participating in psychosocial skills training increased the mean of the sample group in most job stress’ subscales (p<0.001) and decreased the mean of burnout (p<0.003).
Stress and anger management, as well as healthy relationships are all effective components in creating well-being and reducing the destructive effects of tension and job burnout. Hence, due to the importance of some jobs such as driving which requires accuracy and concentration, applying the results of this study and other similar studies in order to reduce the effects of drivers’ tiredness and tension and increasing their accuracy, concentration and ability is needed.

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This study aimed to develop and introduce training package of chronic pain self-management interventions and evaluate its effects on improving pain self-management (PSM), mindfulness skills (MS), metacognitive beliefs (MB), and cognitive emotion regulation strategies (CERS) in people with chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMP). The statistical population included all patients with CMP who were referred to Tehran hospitals between June 2020 and December 2021. Among these, 22 people (two experimental and control groups) of eligible individuals were selected by voluntary sampling method and examined during a quasi-experimental design. The experimental group underwent 8 online intervention sessions and were evaluated online by GSCS-7, PSMC-18, FFMQ-39, MCQ-30 and CERQ-18 during tree sessions (pre-test, post-test and follow-up). Data were analyzed by MANKOVA. According to the results, the overall effects of the self-management interventions were significant (p < 0.05). Also the interventions had a significant effects on improving PSM, increasing the use of MS, and improving CERS (p<0.05), however, the interventions had no significant effects on reducing dysfunctional MB (p < 0.05). Considering the evidence from this study, the authors believe that the use of chronic pain self-management interventions for people with CMP has significant clinical benefits, so its use is recommended to health care providers.