Teaching Online Group Counseling Skills in an On-Campus Group Counseling Course

The Effect of Group Counseling

Objectives: The main objective of this study was to determine the effectiveness of narrative therapy and group counseling on depression and loneliness among elderly women. Methods: This is a quasi experimental research method using post-test design with a control group. 24 women were selected from all the elderly women referring to Iranian Alzheimer’s Association in 2012 through random...

Constrained Group Counseling Optimization

Group Counseling Optimization (GCO) has recently been proposed in an attempt to emulate the human social behavior in solving life problems through counseling within a group. After its promising results in solving unconstrained singleobjective and multi-objective optimization problems, in this paper, GCO is extended to solve the constrained optimization problems for the first time. Also, a hybri...

Teaching antenatal counseling skills to neonatal providers.

Counseling a family confronted with the birth of a periviable neonate is one of the most difficult tasks that a neonatologist must perform. The neonatologist's goal is to facilitate an informed, collaborative decision about whether life-sustaining therapies are in the best interest of this baby. Neonatologists are trained to provide families with a detailed account of the morbidity and mortalit...

The Effect of Life Skills-Based Group Counseling on Stress in Female Adolescents: A Randomized Controlled Trial

The Effect of Group Counseling Based on Reality Therapy on Women's Self Efficacy in Breast Self-examination: An Educational Intervention

Introduction: The most appropriate and effective method of breast cancer screening is breast self-examination. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of group counseling based on reality therapy on women’s self-efficacy of breast self-examination. Methods: This was an educational trial with a pretest-posttest design that was conducted in Shazand city in 2020. The study sample consist...