couple therapy based on acceptance

The present study was conducted to compare the impact of acceptance and commitment-based couple therapy and cognitive-behavioral couple therapy on reducing violence and marital attribution styles of couples seeking divorce.This semi-experimental research is of an experimental type with a pre-test and post-test design with a control group. The statistical sample consisted of 60 couples applying for divorce in Yasuj city in the first quarter of 2012, who were selected by purposive sampling and randomly assigned to three groups of 20 people, cognitive behavioral couple therapy group, acceptance and commitment based couple therapy group, The control group (10 couples in each group) were included. Before and after the implementation of the interventions, the subjects responded to the Spouse Abuse Questionnaire and the Matrimonial Attitude Context Finding Scale. The results of covariance analysis showed that there is a significant difference between the average scores of subjects in the components of emotional violence and physical violence and marital documents in the experimental groups of cognitive behavioral couple therapy and acceptance and commitment-based couple therapy with the control group (P<0.05). ). Post Bonferroni test also showed that there is no significant difference between the two groups of cognitive behavioral couple therapy and couple therapy based on acceptance and commitment. Both interventions of couple therapy based on acceptance and commitment and cognitive-behavioral couple therapy are effective in reducing violence and improving marital documents of couples applying for divorce, and each of the interventions can be used separately or combined.

The severance of emotional bond between couples is the consequence of infidelity by one of them, which imposes a lot of psychological pressure and by creating negative emotions may lead to mutual infidelity or lack of marital commitment in the spouse affected by infidelity. Research background shows that couple therapy based on acceptance and commitment and couple therapy based on Guttman method are effective on the relationships of couples affected by infidelity; however, it is not yet clear which of these interventions can be most effective over time.

The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of couple therapy based on acceptance and commitment and couple therapy based on Guttman method on marital commitment of women affected by infidelity.

The research method was quasi-experimental with pretest-posttest design and three months of follow-up. The statistical population of the study included all women affected by the infidelity of their husbands who referred to Ramsar Health Center from January 2021 to the end of May 2021. 45 people were selected by convenience sampling who randomly divided into two experimental groups and one control group (15 people in each group). The experimental groups each received 8 sessions of couple therapy based on acceptance and commitment (Dahl et al, 2014) and couple therapy based on Guttman (2008) method. The research instrument included the Marital Commitment Questionnaire (Adams and Jones, 1997). Data analysis was performed by mixed analysis of variance using SPSS-23 software.

In the post-test phase, both intervention methods had a significant effect on increasing the marital commitment of women affected by infidelity (P<0.01). In the follow-up phase, two interventions significantly increased marital commitment, but there was no statistically significant difference in marital commitment between the two approaches of couple therapy based on the Gutman method and couple therapy based on acceptance and commitment (P>0.01).

The results of this research showed that both approaches of couple therapy based on acceptance and commitment and couples therapy based on the Guttman method have improved the marital commitment of women affected by infidelity, and hence it can be said that the awareness and use of these two approaches in the direction of marital commitment and conflicts of injured couples Psychologists, couple therapists, and other professionals can help from infidelity.

The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of couple therapy based on acceptance and commitment (ACT) and emotionally-focused couple therapy (EFCT) on marital forgiveness of women affected by extramarital relationships. The method of the present study was semi-experimental with pre-test and post-test with a control group. The statistical population included all women affected by extramarital relationships who were referred to counseling centers in Gorgan in the first 9 months of 1399 Using the purposive sampling method, 45 people were selected, and then They were randomly divided into three groups of 15 people. The first experimental group received emotionally-focused couple therapy and the second experimental group received couple therapy based on acceptance and commitment in 12 sessions of 90 minutes twice a week. The research instrument was the Marital Forgiveness Questionnaire (MFQ) of Ray et al. (2001). Data were analyzed by repeated-measures analysis of variance using SPSS-16 software at a significance level of 0.05. Both approaches of EFCT and ACT have a significant effect on marital forgiveness in the post-test and follow-up stages (P <0/01). The results also showed that acceptance and commitment-based couple therapy had a greater effect on marital forgiveness (P=0/002), presence of positive (P=0/001), and absence of negative (p=0/014) than emotionally-focused couple therapy. As a result, both interventions can be used to increase marital forgiveness but given the greater effectiveness of acceptance and commitment-based couple therapy, this approach is preferred.

Marital quality is not limited to troubled couples; instead, it is a vital issue that should be considered even in normal couples who do not report severe clinical problems. Therefore, the present study aimed to compare the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral couple therapy (CBCT) and acceptance and couple therapy based on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) in improving the marital quality of non-clinical couples in Bandar Abbas.

This study was quasi-experimental with a pre-test, post-test, follow-up, and a control group. The statistical population of the study included all non-clinical (normal) couples in Bandar Abbas. The sample was selected by convenience sampling and included 48 individuals (24 couples). Each group included 16 individuals (eight couples). The data were collected by the Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale (Busby et al., 1995) and analyzed by MANCOVA using SPSS19.

The results revealed that the CBCT and ACT intervention groups had higher means in all aspects of marital quality compared to the control group (p <0.05). The results further showed that only in the post-test the consensus subscale, the mean of the ACT group was significantly higher than the CBCT group (p <0.05); however, no significant difference was found in the follow-up stage. Also, in other subscales of marital quality, i.e., satisfaction and cohesion subscales, no significant difference was found in the post-test and follow-up stages.

According to the findings of the present study, it can be concluded that both CBCT and ACT approaches can be used to improve the marital quality of non-clinical couples.