study of demand of military staff and their family members on counseling and psychotherapy

ABSTRACT

Counseling and psychotherapy are essential for today life. Military staffs and their families are exposed to stresses of military environment along with their common life stressors. Therefore, their demand of counseling service is more. This was a descriptive study performed on 1892 selected subjects in 2003 to recognize the demands of Sepah personnel and their family members for counseling and psychotherapy. The sampling method was double-cluster and the selected data were obtained by questionnaire and analyzed by statistical mean, percentage and Chi-Square tests. Results revealed that counselors and psychotherapies are secondary source for counseling life problems and the major life problems of subjects in order were as follow family relationship, parenting or child rearing and psychological problems. Most subjects asked for establishment of counseling centers to be accessible and application of specialized counselors.The counseling services in military organization have to be adjusted with clients neediness.