Journal of Excellence in counseling and psychotherapy: 5 (24)

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1 - The Investigation of the Relationship between Spiritual Intelligence and Integrative Self- Knowledge with Life Satisfaction
Mina Rezaei Abajlo Mohammad Azad Abdollahpour

Purpose: The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between spiritual intelligence and coherent self-knowledge with the satisfaction of students' lives with the support of the Urmia Relief Committee. Method: The research method was correlation. The statisti More

Purpose: The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between spiritual intelligence and coherent self-knowledge with the satisfaction of students' lives with the support of the Urmia Relief Committee. Method: The research method was correlation. The statistical population of this study was students under the auspices of Imam Khomeini Relief Committee of Urmia city in 2015-16, and 200 people were selected as available as a statistical sample. The Dinner et al. (1985) Life Satisfaction Scale, King's Intellectual Intelligence Intelligence Scale (2008) and the Coherent Self-Esteem Scale of Victim et al. (2008) were used to gather information. Results: The findings showed that there was a positive relationship between the variables of coherent self-knowledge, spiritual intelligence, critical existential thinking, and production of personal meaning, sublime awareness and development of alert state with satisfaction of students' lives under the auspices of Imam Khomeini Relief Committee in Urmia. Has it. And regression analysis suggests that the strongest explanatory variance of life satisfaction is among the predictor variables of spiritual intelligence (P <0.05) Conclusion: The results of the present study indicate that the most important variable related to life satisfaction, which is one of the important indicators of health, is spiritual intelligence, and it is important to focus on cultivating this intelligence in the family and educational environment. Manuscript profile

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2 - The Washback Effect of Entrance Exam of Gifted Schools on Elementary School Curriculum: A Phenomenological Study
Mahdi Shaddel Hosein Eskandari Mahboobe soleiman pooromran

Purpose: The pathology of gifted schools has been raised in the Iranian education community and has not reached a definite conclusion. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of gifted school entrance exams on different aspects of elementary education syste More

Purpose: The pathology of gifted schools has been raised in the Iranian education community and has not reached a definite conclusion. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of gifted school entrance exams on different aspects of elementary education system including: school goals and policies, curriculum, teaching methods and educational activities, learning style and assessment and evaluation. Method: This study is a descriptive phenomenological one. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 55 individuals selected from the following four groups: (a) school principals and assistants; (b) teachers and supervisors; (c) parents; Data analysis and coding were done by Colaizzi method. Results: In the first stage, 287 key points were extracted from the interviews. These points were categorized and summarized in 80 primary themes, 15 intermediate themes, and 12 final themes. Some of the final themes are: Object Interference, Educational Darwinism, Content Discrimination, Test-Based Methods and Activities, Individual Learning Style, Quantitative and Consequentialism, Instrumental View toward Teachers. Conclusion: The gifted schools and the type of entrance exams can cause many harms to some elementary schools. Those elementary schools that focused on preparing students for entrance exams of gifted schools practically ignore some of the most important goals of formal curriculum and educational components. Manuscript profile

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3 - The Effectiveness of Emotion-Focused Couple Therapy on Increasing Emotional Regulation and Depression in Couples Seeking Divorce
Laden Goran Savadkoohi Ali Ghorbannejad

Purpouse: The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of emotion-based couple therapy on increasing the emotional regulation of couples seeking divorce. Method: The present study in terms of applied purpose in terms of quantitative method and in terms of data More

Purpouse: The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of emotion-based couple therapy on increasing the emotional regulation of couples seeking divorce. Method: The present study in terms of applied purpose in terms of quantitative method and in terms of data collection was a quasi-experimental method that was performed with a pre-test post-test design with a control group. The statistical population was all couples seeking divorce who referred to Nima Counseling Center in Tehran, District 3, in 2017. Of these, 18 couples were selected by available sampling method and based on a score below the average on the Depression Scale (Beck, 1976). They were matched and randomly replaced in the experimental and control groups and answered the Emotion Regulation Difficulty Scale (DERS; Gertz and Roemer, 2004) and the Depression Inventory (Beck, 1976) in the pre-test and post-test stages. The experimental group then received emotion-based couple therapy for 9 weeks. [1]Findings: Multivariate analysis of covariance, univariate and Tukey post hoc tests were used to analyze the data. The results showed that emotion-focused couple therapy has a significant effect on increasing emotional regulation and depression in couples seeking divorce. Conclusion: Emotional couple therapy causes awareness, experience and acceptance of normal emotions in couples seeking divorce and brings them to a level of security, after which they express their attachment needs and desires with more confidence and in At the same time, they will be more responsive to each other and will eventually have a greater ability to regulate emotions.   Manuscript profile

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4 - The effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on life expectancy in women with breast cancer
Maryam Hashemi mohammad mehdi Badiee

< p >The aim of this study was the effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on life expectancy and coping strategies in women with breast cancer in Tehran in 2009-2010. The method of the present study was quasi-experimental and a pre-test-post-test-fol More

< p >The aim of this study was the effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on life expectancy and coping strategies in women with breast cancer in Tehran in 2009-2010. The method of the present study was quasi-experimental and a pre-test-post-test-follow-up design with a control group was used. The statistical population included women with breast cancer in Tehran. Thirty of these women who met the inclusion criteria were selected using available sampling method and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The experimental group did not receive cognitive therapy intervention based on the presence of mind and the subjects in the control group did not receive any intervention until the end of the follow-up phase. Data collection tools were life expectancy scale and coping strategies questionnaire that were completed by the subjects in the pre-test, post-test and one-month follow-up stages. Research data were performed using univariate analysis of covariance. The results showed that mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on life expectancy and coping strategies in women with breast cancer in the experimental group were effective at the end of treatment and after one month of follow-up. The results of this study provided appropriate empirical support for mindfulness-based cognitive therapy interventions. It is suggested that this approach be used for life expectancy and coping strategies in women with breast cancer. Manuscript profile

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