Intimacy in marriage is essential for maintaining marital and family relationships. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of the Gottman Couple Therapy (GCT) and the Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT) methods on marital intimacy. For this purpose, 36 couples were selected from among all couples referring to Aramesh, Ofogh, and Khanevadeh in Shahrood counseling...

Background & Purpose: Having a disabled child in a family has many negative consequences for parents. Therefore, the use of effective psychological interventions to reduce these effects is very important; therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of Gottman couple therapy on communication skills and family function in couples with disabled children. Method: This wa...

 Background and purpose: Current research was carried out to compare the effectiveness of integrative approaches; Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT) and Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (IBCT) in improving the symptoms of emotional regulation in couples with marital conflict. Materials and methods: Statistical population included all couples attending Ahvaz Mehrvaran Psychological C...

The purpose of this study was to compare of the effectiveness of emotion-focused couple therapy and mindfulness-based stress reduction program on the emotional divorce of couples. This semi-experimental study was conducted with a pretest-posttest design with a control group and follow-up for two months. The statistical population included all the couples referring to counseling and psychologica...

Background and Objective: Commitment to spouse, marriage, and family is one of the most important factors ensuring the continuity of marriage and strength of family bonds that has attracted considerable attention in the contemporary family and marriage studies. In this study, we sought to determine the effect of couple therapy based on the choice theory on the social commitment of couples. Mat...

 Background: In couple and family therapy, brief solution-focused treatment is a branch of the post-modern approach focusing on solutions to solve the problems. The current research was performed by the aim of studying the effect of brief solution- focused group couple therapy on improving marital quality in women. Methods: The method of the research is semi-experimental the design is p...

The presence of the elements such as marital commitment, marital intimacy and marital relationships alongside the absence of the elements such as family violence and infidelity among the couples, are from the most important factors garanting the healthy marriage. The purpose of the current study was to investigation of the effectiveness of the Gottman’ couple therapy (cognitive-systemic) on mar...