The Effectiveness of the Marriage Enrichment Program Based on the Cognitive-Behavioral Approach on the Marital Intimacy of Addicted Man and their Wives

The aim of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of the marriage enrichment program based on the cognitive-behavioral approach on marital intimacy of addicted individuals and their wives. The experimental and control group of this research was totally composed of 20 couples. A pre-test post-test research model with control group was been used in this research. Marital intimacy Scale as being pre-test and post-test was applied to the experimental and control groups. In order to test that, meaningful differences between the scores of pre-test and post-test within both control and experimental group covariance analysis test were used. It was found that this marriage enrichment program had positive effects on some levels of marital intimacy. The results indicate that the difference between the scores of post-test of the experimental and control groups is significant. The findings have been discussed in the light of literature, and some suggestions have been made. The marriage enrichment program could be used to enhancement marriage intimacy.