ôbjective: working women are predisposed to some psychiatric symptoms or disorders due to their life styles or working conditions such as long working hours, being away from their children during the day, and having various roles as an employee, a spouse, mother and a housekeeper, which creates daily stress, feelings of guilt, anxiety, dysphoric mood or interpersonal problems, all of which may ...

background: with regard to the importance of life skills, the present study deals with the effect of life skills training on general health of the students . materials and methods: this was a one-group, pre-test, post-test, quasi-experimental research. forty students were selected through purposive sampling method. the data collection tool was goldberg general health questionnaire. results: pai...

objectives: the present study aims to investigate the effectiveness of multimedia education  for the development of self-help and life skills in educable, mentally retarded students.  methods: this research is an applied one in terms of objective. a pretest and posttest, with a control group, research design for the collection of data also makes it a quasi-experimental one. the statistical popu...

background : life skills have different effects on various aspects of the mental health. social adjustment prepares adolescents for entering to the adulthood. on the other hand, humor and joking in the education is considered as a stress reducer and learning increaser. therefore, the present study conducted aimed to determine the effect of acquiring life skills through humor on the social adjus...

For 20 years, "life skills" education has been advocated as a key component of HIV and AIDS education for young people. But what do terms such as life skills imply, and what evidence is there that a life skills-based approach really works? This article reviews the literature on the effects and effectiveness of life skills-based education for HIV prevention. Evaluated interventions were identifi...