Seventy working women aged between 35-45 yrs belonging to middle income group were selected randomly and divided equally into two groups Experimental (E) and Control (C). Nutrition counselling (NC) was imparted to group E for a period of three months by nine individual and three group contacts through nutrition module, lectures, participatory, discussions, demonstrations etc. The subjects of gr...

Background: The counselors are responsible for academic counseling to students and help them to solve their educational problems. The aim of the present study was to determine the viewpoints of students about the status of academic counseling provided by the faculty advisers in four schools at University of Medical Sciences. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, the opinions of 244 students a...

the goal of this study was to assess the result of solution- based group counseling in reducing job stress in the female employees of the educational foundation  of ghalamchi in 2009.the target group included the entire female employees of that foundation. a group of 24 women were selected  and  randomly grouped as the control and experimental groups. the data was collected using pillip l-rice`...

An effective assessment tool can prevent student dropout problems that are a continuous concern in the educational world in advance. If students can be screened before dropping out and offered preventive counseling, their risk behaviors will be more effectively controlled than if they are found and returned to school. Researchers are diligently developing efficient and effective assessment tool...

PURPOSE Primary care practices are an ideal setting for reducing national smoking rates because >70% of smokers visit their physician annually, yet smoking cessation counseling is inconsistently delivered to patients. We designed and created a novel software program for handheld computers and hypothesized that it would improve clinicians' ability to provide patient-tailored smoking cessation co...

Because work is important to mental health, faculty who teach career development courses need strategies to engage master’s counseling students who may have low motivation for the topic. Findings from this exploratory study suggest that enhanced focus on experiential learning strategies, achieved by using a flipped classroom, may improve students’ attitudes toward career development counseling ...

OBJECTIVES To estimate the impact of Rx for Change, an 8-h tobacco cessation training program on pharmacy students' perceived counseling skills, confidence for counseling, and future counseling of patients for tobacco cessation. METHODS Unlinked, pre- and post-training surveys were administered to 142 pharmacy students enrolled at Texas Southern University, a primarily minority and historical...