The Effectiveness of positive psychotherapy on depression and marital satisfaction of depressed women

Aim: This research has aimed to determine the effectiveness of positive psychotherapy on the decrease of depression and the increase of marital satisfaction of depressed women.
The design of research is quasiexperiment including pretest and posttest of control group. Statistical population of this research include 72 married women refereed to health centers of Tehran 5th district in the summer of 1392. Among them, after screening, 21 women were randomly selected into experiment group and control group. The subjects were evaluated before and after interventions through depression inventory of Beck, Ward, Mendelson, Mock, & Erbaugh (1961) as well as Enrich marital satisfaction scale of Olson, Fournier & Druckman (1987). The positive psychotherapy was administered in 8 sessions, each of them took 2 hours in the experiment group and there was no intervention in control group. The data were analyzed through covariance and repeated measures analysis.
The results show that positive psychotherapy has significant impacts on the decrease of depression and the increase of martial satisfaction level. The follow-up confirm the stability of positive psychotherapy.
In the treatment field, emphasized to use new psychological treatments, it is recommended that researchers take the use of positive psychotherapy into consideration.