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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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This study was conducted to assess the influence of the self-differentiation training on the reduction of the degree of anxiety in girl students of divorced parents. Population of the study incorporated high school girl students of divorces parents in 6^th district of Tehran city. Considering this, of the high schools of the 6^th district of Tehran city, a school was selected randomly and a list of its students with divorced parents was provided. Then, 16 students were selected randomly and were put into two groups of eight and completed Cattle anxiety inventory and self-differentiation questionnaire. Then, 45-minutes sessions (two sessions in one week) was performed in the experimental group .In this study, pretest, posttest with control group design was used and the data was analyzed through multivariable analysis of variance. Results of the study showed that self-differentiation training was effective in the reduction of the anxiety of students with divorce parents with 95 percent of assurance. Based on the results of the study, it is suggested to the counselors and psychologists to use the group self-differentiation training as a useful method for the treatment of students’ anxiety.