Therapeutic Schema and Compassion-Focused Therapy and Evaluating Its Effectiveness on the on Women’s Marital Burnout

The purpose of the present study was to develop and evaluate a therapeutic model based on schema therapy and therapy centered on compassion, as well as to evaluate its efficacy on marital burnout among women with marital conflict and primary incompatible schemas related to the field of cut and rejection. In the qualitative part,the present study employed thematic analysis by comparative method, whereas the quantitative partemployed a semi-experimental pre-test-post-test design with a control group and a two-month follow-up period. In the summer of 2019, the statistical population of the present study consisted of women with marital conflict who visited counseling centers in the city of Isfahan. A total of 26 women were selected using a non-random sampling method and assigned to the experimental and control groups at random. During two and a half months, the experimental group received the therapeutic model intervention based on schema therapy and compassion-focused therapyThe applied questionnaires in the current study include marital conflict (MCQ), early maladaptive schemas questionnaire (SQ), and marital burnout questionnaire (MBQ). The data obtained from the research was analyzed by the method of mixed variance analysis by statistical software SPSS-23. According to experts, the results demonstrated that the schema therapy- and compassion-based therapeutic model has sufficient content validity. Using the concepts of schema therapy and therapy focused on compassion, the therapeutic model based on schema therapy and therapy focused on compassion can be an effective therapy to reduce the marital despondency of women with marital conflict and primary incompatible schemas related to the field of cutting and Exclusion, according to the findings of this study.