The effect of solution- focused short-term couple therapy on women's marital adjustment in Qom

Marital adjustment is one of the most extensive concepts to determine and show the happiness and stability rate of couples’ relationship. Marital adjustment affects on different dimensions of individuals’ personal and social life. The purpose of this research is to study the effect of solution- focused short-term couple therapy on women’s marital adjustment increase in Qom in 2012.

This research is semi-experimental with pretest, posttest and control group. The populations are couples referring to family counseling centers in Qom and they were self –introduced. The samples were 60 women who were volunteer to attend in this research, selected available and allocated randomly into two groups of experimental and control. The research measures were demographic characteristics and Spanier’s marital adjustment questionnaire. To analyze the data, covariance analysis and also descriptive statistics were used by SPSS.

The analysis showed group education based on solution- focused short-term couple therapy has significant effect on marital adjustment (p<0/05).Also, it is influenced on satisfaction, unity and affection expression (p<0/05).

Concerning the increasing of divorce rate and marital satisfaction and adjustment decrease in recent two decades in our country, solution- focused therapy can increase marital adjustment and prevent divorce through helping couples develop effective solutions and finding exception issues in life.