Solmaz Mobassem; Ali Delavar; Abolfazl Karami; Baqer Sana'i; Abdollah Shafi'abadi
Volume 3, Issue 9 , February 2013, , Pages 81-102
Abstract
The presence of one of the couple (wife) in therapy with intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy approach can improve the marital relationship. The purpose of present study is to determine the effectiveness of intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy in decreasing the marital conflict in women. ...
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The presence of one of the couple (wife) in therapy with intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy approach can improve the marital relationship. The purpose of present study is to determine the effectiveness of intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy in decreasing the marital conflict in women. The study was administered with a quasi-experimental design and case study in the centers of psychology and counseling in Tehran. Five women who had marital conflict and were appropriate for short-term dynamic psychotherapy were sampled purposefully. They participated individually in 12–15 therapeutic sessions with Davanloo’s Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy. Marital conflict questionnaire was completed by participants in two stages, before and one week after intervention. The data were analyzed by dependent t-test. The results showed that the marital conflict of women of case study (n=5) was less than that before the intervention. Intervention treatments, based on the intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy, can be useful for decreasing marital conflict in women.
Abolfazl Karami; Maliheh Shahrestani; Samira Tavana'i Yousefian; Mina Asiabi
Volume 2, Issue 7 , February 2012, , Pages 125-150
Abstract
The purpose of this research is to study the family communication patterns (conversation-oriented and conformity-oriented) and stress-coping strategies (emotional-focused and problem-focused) as the predictors of dependence of 13–18 year-old male smokers and non-smokers to cigarette in Mashhad. ...
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The purpose of this research is to study the family communication patterns (conversation-oriented and conformity-oriented) and stress-coping strategies (emotional-focused and problem-focused) as the predictors of dependence of 13–18 year-old male smokers and non-smokers to cigarette in Mashhad. A statistical sample of 182 male teenagers (91 smokers and 91 non-smokers) residing in Mashhad were randomly selected through the process of multistage cluster sampling from two regions (regions 2 and 5) among seven regions of Mashhad and from 14 districts in these two regions. A revised version of Koerner-Fitzpatrick Scale (1990) and Karami-Zinalkhani Scale were used to evaluate the aspects of family communication patterns and stress-coping skills (2010), respectively. In addition to descriptive statistics methods, discriminant analysis method was used for data analysis. The results confirmed all the hypotheses of the research and showed that the teenagers' tendency to smoking could be predicted by studying the conversation-oriented communication pattern, conformity-oriented communication pattern, problem-focused stress-coping skills and emotional-focused stress coping skills.
