Comparing the Efficacy of Arbitration and Family Counseling Process on Marital Conflict in Isfahan's Family Courts

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of arbitration on decrease of matrimonial conflicts to divorce of married couple who asked for divorce and to compare it with the process of consultation.In this study, 15 pairs for arbitration and 15 pairs for consultation are selected among married couple from social services of "adoption institution" in Isfahan, who had come to the interfering in family center, to decrease the divorce.The research procedure was consisted of two 1) Descriptive (survey) 2) Quasi experimental with pre-test and post –test.To collect datum, Sanaei and Barati matrimonial conflicts questionaire and Ghalili and Fatehizadeh.matrimonial conflicts questionnaire have been used. To analyze the results SPSS software has been used. The results show that the process of arbitration doesn’t have influence on decrease of matrimonial conflicts and its dimensions in married couple who ask for divorce (p>0.05), whereas the process of consultation has influence on decease of matrimonial conflicts and its dimensions in married couple who ask for divorce (p< 0.05).None of the processes, namely arbitration and consultation, have differences on effect according to the gender (p>0.05).