The Effectiveness of Hypnotherapy and Schema Therapy in Improving Emotional Control in People Affected by Marital Infidelity

Background: Controlling emotions can be influential in increasing the quality of married life and coping with outcomes uncovering extramarital affairs. Objectives: This study hence investigated effectiveness hypnotherapy schema therapy improving emotional control people affected by marital infidelity. Methods: was a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design three-month follow-up. The population included all couples dealing infidelity who visited Mehr-e-Taban Counseling Psychological Services Center Tehran, Iran 2021. A total 48 individuals were selected through convenient sampling randomly assigned to two experimental groups group (n = 16). first received eight 90-minute sessions second ten sessions. research instrument Emotion Control Questionnaire (ECQ). data analyzed using ANCOVA post hoc tests SPSS-22. Results: mean ± SD posttest score 47.62 2.80 48.82 1.45, which significantly different from (P < 0.001). findings revealed that both therapeutic approaches effective its four components including rehearsal, inhibition, aggression control, benign participants There no significant difference between effects control. Conclusions: results indicated counseling centers helping maladjusted improve reduce their problems increase satisfaction, particularly damaged