Abstract Background and Objectives: The vulnerability of women heading households both at the individual and community levels can lead to decreased quality of life of women. Pressure caused by the single-headed life leads to reduced quality of life. Identifying problems and obstacles in the lives of head women is important in the effective control of problems. The aim of this study was to ...

background: special care needs of mentally retarded children can affect the mental health of the mother. the purpose of this study was the efficacy of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (mbct) on reducing depression and increasing life expectancy of mothers with mentally retarded children. methods: this study was a two group quasi-experimental plan with pre and post test. the population has fo...

In every organization, including human service organizations, the role of resources becomes very important, because running organization is largely determined by existence as a driver in resource management and organizational activities that are realized to achieve goals. This study aims examine setting child social welfare institution which part organization. uses descriptive qualitative appro...

Building on the social science literature, we hypothesized that population health indicators in wealthy industrialized countries are 'clustered' around welfare state regime types. We tested this hypothesis during a period of welfare state expansion from 1960 to 1994. We categorized data from 19 wealthy countries into 4 different types of welfare state regimes (Social Democratic, Christian Democ...

Animal-welfare issues are usually portrayed in the media in a black-and-white fashion, with simple, single-perspective solutions proposed for what are often, in fact, complex policy issues. In this article, we argue that animal welfare is a multifaceted international and domestic public-policy issue that must take account of not only scientific, ethical, and economic issues but also religious, ...

Studies presented in this paper were supported by funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (grant 5–RO1–DA12256), the Administration for Children and Families, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The 1996 welfare reform law replaced the existing entitlement to cash welfare with a transitional program of temporary aid that has employment as its primary goal. Among the key provisions...

perhaps before establishing the psychology and counseling organization of iran by the parliament in 2003, the biggest threat to this discipline was the practice of unprofessional people. on this basis, the biggest opportunity for this discipline was establishing this organization by the parliament as the supreme legislative body in the country. on 14/11/2012 counseling centers regulation was in...

the importance of genetic and congenital factors which cause many diseases and disabilities is obvious with a glance at the facts and figures in the world. in iran, like many other middle eastern countries, certain factors exist that worsen the situation such as: 1. high percentage of consanguineous marriages, 2. high incidence and prevalence of hemoglobinopathies (b-thalassemia & g6pd-d), 3. a...