abbas mooziri

Numerous studies have examined the factors influencing family resilience. But research that looks at the factors influencing the resilience of the Iranian family has been neglected.

The aim of the present study was to model the factors affecting the resilience of the Iranian family.

The present study was a correlational survey. The statistical population of the study included all parents in Tehran in 2020. 309 parents were selected by available and voluntary sampling method. The present research tools included a researcher-made questionnaire on family resilience factors (2020) and the Siksbi family resilience scale (2005). Data analysis was performed using path analysis.

Belief system, external resources, and family structure directly and personality traits and skills indirectly affected family resilience (P <0/05).

Family structure involves concepts such as intimacy, cooperation, and agreement that increase family resilience in crises

Family faces different hardships and challenges that are such stressful that can destroy it. No doubt that we need to protect and last family. So, this research aims at developing a local model for family resilience.

To do so, at primer level 13 couples who qualified the criteria, were selected through purpose-focused, available, and voluntary sampling method. In order to identify local elements of family resilience the families experienced a crisis in their marriage, and obtained high scores in Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD- RISC), Sixbey Family Resilience Surrey (SFRS), and Family Assessment Device (FAD) were voluntarily interviewed. Qualitative Grounded method was used to collect information.

In analyzing transcripts of interviews with couples, 168 and 15 categories were obtained respectively from open coding and axial coding based on topic similarity. As a result, a model of family resilience was constructed including 5 dimensions: Personality, Belief System, Skills, Family Structure, and Social Resource.

The developed Iranian model is integrative, and it can be used for designing interventions to increase family resilience and patience toward problems.

Goal: The aim of the present study is to examine the effect of education of trusting in God’s faith on depression in the elderly men. The method quasi-experimental study and research design was pretest-post test with control group. The population was the elderly men living in nursing homes in Tehran province. Between the existing hospice, hospice charity Kahrizak elderly were randomly selected. GDS 15-question Form was administered on the 50 of elderly men and the 20 cases whose depression scale scores were 8 and above 8 Selected randomly in both test and control groups of 10. In this study,eight training sessions were held about trusting in God for the experimental group. One week after completion of the group training, the depression, GDS 15 question test on both test and control groups was administrated. Results of tests examined using one-way analysis of covariance (Nkva). Data analysis was performed using SPSS 16. It was shown that the educational intervention on the subject is significant (P <0/05). According to the study,trust in God is effective in reducing depression and increasing the quality of life for elderly people.

As long as the elderly population increases, there is more need to pay attention to the factors related to quality of their life. The main objective of present study was to invatigate the effectiveness of existential group therapy on elderly’s death anxiety. The research population was the elderly who walked-into the Iranian Alzheimer Association. A total of 18 elder people who where avialable and volunteerwere selected randomly. They were randomly assigned to control and experimental groups. Callet-Lester Death Anxiety Questionnaire was used for data collection. The experimental group participated in 12 group therapy sessions while the control group received no treatment. The results of the analysis of covariance showed that existential group therapy did not decrease the elderly dealth anxiety.

Helping professions concern to have more effective therapies and naturally try to achieve such methods. Long years ago, a method has been formulated wich tries to improve personal and psychological problems by gathering individuals as a group, a therapy group. This method experiences ups and downs to become what we know as group counseling and psychotherpay, today. But how much effective is it? Many research and studies performed to assess its effectivenes by classic methods, like comparing them with no-therapy conditions. But one of best methods in assessing effectiveness of therapy methods is meta-analysis. Meta-analysis integrates results of various studies in order to compare the effect size of various therapeutic models. Aim of the present study is to review the effectiveness of group methods in treatment of personality and other problems, using meta-analytic method. Thus, 30 research articles and post graduate thesis included to be analyzed. Result shows that effect size of group counseling and psychotherapy is 89. This means a powerful effect size for group methods.