Study On the Effectiveness of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy and Gottman’s Systemic Couple Therapy on marital harmony in conflicting couples

One of the marital abnormalities that causes psychological, inferiority and divorce is marital conflict, resulting in a lack of harmony between couples. The effectiveness of Emotion-focosed and Gottman's cognitive-systems approaches has been confirmed on various variables, but marital Harmony has been neglected. The purpose of this study was to determine and compare the effectiveness of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy and Gottman’s Systemic Couple Therapy on marital harmony in conflicting couples. This research was a semi-experimental design with pre-test-post-test design with two experimental and one control groups. The statistical population of this study was all conflicting couples referring to counseling centers and private psychology in the 2nd and 5th areas of Tehran in 1397. From this community, 60 people were selected and randomly assigned to three groups (20 subjects): Trial 1 and 2, and the test. For each of the three groups, a questionnaire (Xu and lai, 2004) was used for pre-test, and then an emotional couple therapy program Johnson circuit was used for experimental group 1 and Gutmann System Couple Therapy for experimental group 2, but no intervention was used for the control group; the results were analyzed using covariance analysis at 5% level. The results of covariance analysis showed that both excited and systemic couples had a significant effect on increasing the coordination of couples (p<0/001). The results of post hoc test showed that the efficacy of excited couple therapy was more than systemic paired therapy (p<0/001). It is possible to use an emotional-couple therapy couple therapy to improve marital coordination.