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Emotional relationship between mother and fetus is expressed as maternal fetal attachment. This attachment is the first relationship which is significantly correlated with afterborn mother-infant relationship. The purpose of present study was to study the effectiveness of maternal fetal attachment educational program on maternal fetal attachment and improvement of mental health in pregnant women.
This study was an experimental study with pretest – posttest and control group. The population consisted of pregnant women whom visited Sarem hospital from the April to the end of May of 2015. Which among them 30 people were chosen randomly, and 15 participant were assigned to the intervention group and 15 participant entered in control group. Intervention group were invited to the workshop by an invitation. In order to collecting the data, maternal fetal attachment scale (Cranley, 1981) and mental health scale (Lovibond & Lovibond, 1995) were used. Workshop was held for 10 sessions of 90 minutes each, once a week. The collected data were analyzed by multivariate covariance analysis.
Results showed that prenatal attachment program improves maternal fetal attachment and mental health of the pregnant women (p > 0.001).
Considering the results, present study has important clinical applications in order to improve mental health in pregnant women. Learning attachment technics leads to improvement of prenatal attachment and mental health of pregnant moms; so by teaching these technics, we can lay the groundwork for mental health of mother and infant.

The aim of the current study is to compare early maladaptive schemas (EMSs) and attachment styles in delinquent and normal adolescents and then to compare them with the attachment styles of their parents. The research method is causal-comparative (ex post facto) and the participants were 100 delinquent adolescents (75 boys, 25 girls), 100 normal adolescents (65 boys, 35 girls) and their parents. The sampling methods were availability sampling and cluster random sampling for delinquent adolescents and normal adolescents respectively. The data collection instruments were the short form of Yung’s Early Maladaptive Schema Inventory and Collin and Reed’s Attachment Style Scales. The results of the hypothesis analysis by means of the two-way ANOVA showed that there is a significant difference (p<0/001) between the EMSs and attachment styles of the parents of delinquent adolescents and those of normal adolescents. The results of the present study are in agreement with those of the previous research on the relationship between EMS and non-secure attachment style in parents and they suggest that the parents of delinquent adolescents with maladaptive schemas have higher non-secure attachment styles. These results can be used to assist families and prevent high-risks behaviors among adolescents.

Intimacy is a composite, multidimensional, dynamic and evolutionary construct. It is a skill and an art that requires specific behaviors and various abilities. Intimacy also requires good communication between spouses, sound transfer of concepts and messages, sympathetic understanding and sharing each other’s feelings, thoughts and needs. Therefore, instruction and development of communication skills may lead to increased intimacy.The current study probes into the impact of teaching communication skills on the marital intimacy of married women. The sample included 30 married women who had low scores on the test. They were randomly put into experimental and control groups. One of the research instruments was a marital intimacy inventory (Owlia, 2006) which measured nine aspects of intimacy (emotional, intellectual, physical, social, communicative, religious, psychological, sexual and general intimacy). The second instrument was an educational program developed on the basis of Miller's theory to train the experimental group.The findings indicate that following 8 training sessions, the scores of the experimental group on overall marital intimacy and its components showed a significant difference in comparison with those of the control group. This suggests that teaching communication skills led to an increase in intimacy and its various aspects in the experimental group. Based on the findings of the current study, it can be suggested that teaching communication skills in counseling centers can be useful for families.