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Military psychology, because of it's variety in the fields of military performance, deals with different subjects. The practical fields consist of evaluation of military personnel, studying human factors and human-technology relationships, effect of environmental factors on forces, considering pathological factors, propagandas and psychological war and psychotherapy and changing behavior. Today, the strategy of military knowledge is based on a tripod of special wars, space wars and psychological operation. Applied psychology serves military needs, according to these Three. The military might of soldier in special wars, space wars and psychological operating, is Knowledge. personality and motivational features, like optimistism, high courage, lack of neurotic indignation symptoms and aggression and suitable conceptual organization was evaluated from the view point of personality and motivational psychology. Preparing the environment that causes the ability of suitable emotional incentives by designing special computer games for soldiers and control of environmental effects like heat, atmosphere changes, color and voice upon cognitive- behavioral performance of soldiers from the view point of environmental psychology and use of propaganda psychology for professionalizing the psychological operations from the view point of military deception, are considered as applicable samples of psychology in military territories.

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Background: Human resources play an important role in the success or failure of an organization, and the society’s development largely depends on improving its human resources. Job satisfaction and employees’ psychological empowerment are two concepts in line with the development of human resources. In this regard, we aimed to investigate the relationship between psychological empowerment and job satisfaction in the military forces. Materials and methods: Totally, 300 armed force personnel (Sepah, Army, and Police) were selected using convenience sampling method, and the standardized questionnaires of job satisfaction (Job Descriptive Index: JDI) and psychological empowerment (Spreitzer) were used for data collection. Descriptive statistics as well as Pearson’s correlation and stepwise regression analysis were run using SPSS 16 for data analysis. Results: The results showed that job satisfaction and psychological empowerment had a significant positive relationship (p=0.001). Also stepwise regression analysis showed that total psychological empowerment was the first and most important variable for predicting job satisfaction among the predictor variables, explaining %78 of the criterion variance. The variables of Influence, Competence, and Meaningfulness were respectively entered into the equation and were observed to explain 82%, 83%, and 81% of the criterion variance, respectively. Conclusion: It was observed that higher psychological empowerment was associated with higher levels of job satisfaction among armed force personnel.

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Background: Mental health is one of the main components of positive psychology movement that plays an important role in physical health, mental health, life satisfaction, and successful marriage. Also, its increase in distress and crisis in couple's relationships can be considered as a positive achievement in couple therapy. This study aimed to compare the effectiveness of integrative behavioral couple therapy and behavioral systems couple therapy in increasing the mental health of couples.

Materials and methods: This was a quasi-experimental research with pretest-posttest control group design and repeated measures. The statistical society was formed of couples who referred to four psychological counseling in Tehran. In this study, 24 couples were selected by convenience sampling method and then randomly divided into two experimental groups and one control group. Ryff's psychological well-being questionnaire included 84 questions with six sub-scales was used for data gathering. These data were analyzed using SPSS software, descriptive statistics indexes, mixed model analysis of covariance, and also multivariable analysis.

Results: The findings showed that compared to behavioral systems couple therapy, integrative behavioral couples therapy had a greater impact on increasing self-acceptance, personal growth, and environmental mastery (components of mental health).

Conclusion: In healthy interpersonal relationships, especially marriage, it is required that couples increased their sense of control over the environment with having a positive attitude to themselves and their past lives. It will help them to achieve new experiences as a human with effective potential.

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Background: Survey on different biological dimensions of personality consisting of morningness and eveningness types and their influence on different aspects of psychological damages of adolescents seem to be a necessary scope of study. The aim of the present study was to investigate psychological damage levels in adolescents based on their biological personality types Including morningness and eveningness.
Materials and methods: For this purpose, 362 High school students in Bushehr city were selected using multistage cluster sampling. Then, morningness-eveningness questionnaire was distributed among them. After analysing the initial results, 61 participants were selected for the second stage based on their scores in personality traits questionnaire, as individuals with morning, evening and intermediate type categories. Finally, in order to test the hypothesis of this study, psychological symptoms assessment questionnaire (SCL-90-R) was distributed among them. The collected data were analysed to investigate the research goals.
Results: it was indicated significant differences between dimensions of psychological damage based on the morning, evening, and intermediate types of personality: evening types had higher scores in all components of the measurement of psychological damage.
Conclusion: It seems that individual differences in biological cycles of adolescents’ personality may be related with the levels of psychological damage.
 

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Background: With the spread of Covid-19 cases throughout the world, including Iran, the level of stress and anxiety has also increased. However, due to the danger of transmission of the disease and quarantine conditions, direct and face-to-face access to  mental health professionals is limited and even impossible. Since providing psychological services through telecommunication and technology is not very common in Iran, and there is no specific instruction in Iranian ethical codes, the purpose of this study was to review the existent ethical considerations in providing remote psychological services.
Materials and methods: This narrative review was conducted using key words including: telepsychiatry, telepsychotherapy, ethics, and code of ethics in the official website of psychology association or organization of different countries and also in national as well as international databases, regulations, instructions, and verified articles in this field.
Results: ethical principles in providing remote psychological services are similar to those of psychology, but etical standards such as eligibility and confidentiality require considerations that must be taken into account.
Conclusion: in order to provide the optimal psychological services and prevention of possible damages, if a psychologist, after the necessary evaluation, decides to provide online psychological services, he or she should have the necessary competencies in using communication technology . additionally, they should be aware of the related ethical principles and standards and apply them.

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Background and Aims: Diabetes can have significant psychological effects on health. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of group therapy based on acceptance and commitment on cognitive fusion and health locus of control of type 2 diabetic patients.
Methods: The present study was a quasi-experimental design of pre-test, post-test and follow-up with a control group. From the statistical population of the study, which included all patients with type 2 diabetes referred to diabetes Clinic of Dey Hospital in Tehran in the second six months of 2020, a sample of 30 people were randomly selected and randomly divided into experimental and control groups. Initially, cognitive fusion questionnaires and health control centers were administered in both groups. The experimental group then underwent 8 sessions of 90-minute group therapy based on acceptance and commitment of Hayes et al. but the control group did not receive any treatment. Data were analyzed using SPSS software version 24 and analysis of variance with repeated measures between groups at the significance level of α = 0.05.
Findings: The results showed that acceptance and commitment to group therapy led to a reduction in cognitive fusion and improved health Locus of control for type 2 diabetic patients (P <0.05).
Conclusion: Acceptance and commitment group therapy can help improve the psychological symptoms of diabetic patients and reduce the psychological consequences of diabetes.