The effectiveness of positive psychotherapy on marital adjustment and happiness in women who refers to cunsoling centers

Helping and soporting from family upon to disorgnazation and its protect is a necessery criterian of progress cevilization of promotion of human and social material and spiritual. With the purpos of the effectiveness of group posetive psychotherapy on marital adjustment and happiness, about 30 women who refer to counseling center of Rasht city were selected by convenient sampling and divided to experiment and control group. The methodology of research was quasi- experimental with pertest-post-test and control group. For women in experimental group implemented group positive psychotherapy in eight sessions weekly. Subjects of tow group were assessed by Spanier dyadic adjustmen scale and Oxford Happiness Inventory. In pretest and posttest step. Result of covariance analysis showed that group positive psychotherapy increased marital adjustment and happiness of women who were refers to counseling center )p < 0.005). Based on this, positive psychotherapy seems to be a short-term effective treatment of marital adjustment and happiness in women with marital conflicts.