Research Paper
family counselling
Negar Sadat Mirkazem; Asieh Shariatmadar; kiumars farahbakhsh
Abstract
AbstractThe attitude toward spouse’s emotion expression is one of the possible factors affecting intimacy. This study intended to compare the attitudes toward spouse’s emotion express among women with high and low level of intimacy. A qualitative approach with a descriptive phenomenological ...
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AbstractThe attitude toward spouse’s emotion expression is one of the possible factors affecting intimacy. This study intended to compare the attitudes toward spouse’s emotion express among women with high and low level of intimacy. A qualitative approach with a descriptive phenomenological method was used in this study. The study population includes married women in Tehran 2021. Considering saturation principle and using a purposive sampling method, a sample of 20 individuals was selected. Data collection was done through semi-structured interviews and their analysis was done with the seven-step method of Colaizzi’s phenomenological analysis. Data analysis led to seven main themes in each group. The main themes extracted from the group of high emotional intimacy were: “comprehensive and positive perspective”, “flexibility”, “belief in the role of self-agency”, “necessity of facilitating conversations”, “necessity of determining common and private boundaries”, “necessity of regulating expressiveness” and “attitude dependent on emotion and its motivating factor”; The main themes extracted from the low emotional intimacy group included “negative and limited perspective”, “inflexibility”, “low self-confidence”, “role of rationality in managing emotion”, “non-expression of emotion as its absence”, “gender-related expectations” and “labels and expectations forming attitude”. Based on the results it seems that the differences in the attitudes of these two groups are often based on the degree of flexibility and realism towards spouse’s emotion expression and also considering one's own role in this regard.
Research Paper
School counselor
Mahdi Vojdani Hemmat; HamidReza Ansarikia
Abstract
In Iran's educational system, guiding students to increase their academic/career preparation as well as achieving success in school and after school is one of the duties of school counselors. The purpose of this research is to examine the challenges of newly hired school counselors in the management ...
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In Iran's educational system, guiding students to increase their academic/career preparation as well as achieving success in school and after school is one of the duties of school counselors. The purpose of this research is to examine the challenges of newly hired school counselors in the management of students' academic guidance using the method of qualitative thematic analysis. In this study, eight school counselors were selected using convenience sampling. The data obtained from the semi-structured interviews were analyzed based on the Brown and Clark thematic analysis method. Based on the results, five main themes were obtained, which are: challenges related to the academic guidance program, students' problems in successfully performing academic guidance, lack of preparation of counselors before employment in school, barriers to counselor's professional performance during employment in school, and challenges of counselors' professional identity. Recognizing and examining the challenges of novice counselors around the academic guidance program leads to more effectiveness and cooperation with teachers, administrators and families in order to improve the level of students' growth. The results of these surveys will be successfully reflected in the fields of academic, professional and personal/social development of students.
