Islamic Counselling: An Introduction to Theory and Practice by G. Hussein Rassool successfully differentiates Islamic counseling theory from a wide range of mainstream therapeutic models such as psychoanalytic, humanistic, cognitive–behavioral, and solutionfocused approaches. It serves as an introductory guide to support academics, clinicians, paraprofessionals, and students in the understandin...

Psychological consequences of infertility issues, one of the problems is that infertile couples face and neglect of these adverse effects will follow. The most important of these psychological issues can be traced to marital intimacy. This study was a quasi-experimental with a pretest posttest design. The study population consisted of infertile couples who were referred to counseling center of ...

BACKGROUND Lack of intimacy is currently the main concern rather than main concern of the experts in psychology and counseling. It is considered as one of the most important causes for divorce and as such to improve marital intimacy a great number of interventions have been proposed in the literature. Intimacy training and counseling make the couples take effective and successful steps to incre...

Objective Marital quality reflects the individual’s overall evaluation of marital relationship. The aim of study was examine the effect of cognitive behavioral counseling on marital quality among women. MaterialsAndMethods The experimental study was a randomized clinical trial with two groups, on 198 qualified women who referred to selected health care centers in Hamadan, Iran in 2016. The inte...

Introduction: Marriage has always been emphasized as the most important factor in achieving the emotional needs. The satisfaction of marital relationship decreases over time and among many couples. This study was carried out to compare the effectiveness of group counseling based on Gottman's theory and Glasser's choice theory on increasing satisfaction and decreasing marital conflicts among mar...

Introduction: This study aims at analyzing the effectiveness of emotionally focused couple therapy on marital conflicts and tendency to get divorce in couples who have referred to counseling centers in Bandar Abbas County. Correspondence: Fatemeh Solymani Ahmadi, MSc. Department of Family Counseling, Hormozgan Un...

addiction is regarded as a crucial threat for family health. it seems that the third wave of cognitive behavioral therapies with an emphasis on mindfulness and psychological resilience are effective in the rehabilitation of substance using married women with children.the present study intended to assess the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment counseling for self-efficacy and marital sati...

This study examines the correlates of marital satisfaction using data from a national probability sample of African Americans (N = 962) and Black Caribbeans (N = 560). Findings reveal differences between African Americans and Black Caribbeans, and men and women within those groups, in the predictors of marital satisfaction. Black Caribbean women reported overall higher levels of marital satisfa...