The Effect of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy in Marital Adjustment

The high prevalence of couple discord and its impact on disruption of emotional and physical well-being of partners and their offsprings emp-hasizes the importance of strategies for treating conflicting and discord couples. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effective-ness of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT) on increasing marital adjustment.Ten couples who were randomly allocated to treatment group and waiting list control group composed the sample. Couples in treatment gr-oup received 20 sessions EFT. All couples completed Dyadic Adjustm-ent Scale (DAS) at pre and post treat-ment and at 2 months follow up.Repeated Measure Analysis of Varia-nce indicated that EFT increased mar-ital adjustment significantly (P>0/001). In addition, there was no significant difference between two groups from post- treatment to follow up stage. Findings indicate that EFT increased marital adjustment at the end of ther-apy but effects were not persistent over the time.