introduction: each year nearly 529,000 women worldwide die due to complications of pregnancy and childbirth.premarital education can play an effective role in improving the health of the pregnancy.selection of appropriate educational practices leads to more useful education.this study examined the effect of a focus group about prenatal health on knowledge and attitudes of marriage candidategirl...

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...

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...

introduction: about one fifth of couples are infertile and 2 million couples are added to this amount annually. the variety in the rate of adjustment reflects the interpersonal vulnerabilities that affects the capacity of person cope with a life stressful events such as infertility. the goal of psychological interventions is recognition and the person to more cope with this situation. according...

BACKGROUND In India, tobacco consumption is responsible for one of the highest rates of oral cancer in the world, the annual oral cancer incidence is steadily increasing among young tobacco users. Studies have documented efforts taken by physicians, doctors and even dentists, in the form of individual or group counseling to curb tobacco use in smoke or smokeless form. However, which one is more...

introduction: with regard to the importance of life quality (lq) in patients with cancer, especially breast cancer, and research conflicts about quality and quantity of the effect of counseling on lq promotion in such patients and for determining the effect of group counseling on symptom scales of lq in patients with breast cancer treated by chemotherapy, this study was carried out at the at th...