As a growing profession, counseling in Iran was first established within the Iranian educational system. Counselors in Iran have provided mental health services during natural disasters and war. The counseling profession in Iran currently faces challenges in addressing the needs of women; ethnic minorities; and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer individuals. In this article, the authors focus on the historical background, current trends, and future challenges of the counseling profession in Iran.

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In this paper, we propose a numerical scheme to solve multi-dimensional Black-Scholes equation using the global radial basis functions-based differential quadrature (RBFs-DQ) method. Before applying the method, it is needed to remove mixed derivatives from the Black-Scholes equation by making an appropriate change of variables. Then, any spatial derivativeis are approximated by a linear weighted sum of all the function values in the whole physical domain. In the RBFs-DQ method the weighting coefficients are computed by RBFs. The method is very easy to implement and the non-singularity is ensured. The proposed method combines the advantages of the conventional DQ method and the RBFs. It also preserves mesh-free feature of RBFs.