Effectiveness of transdiagnostic educational package on communication patterns and secure bond of couples referred to family counseling centers

Identification of Transdiagnostic treatments, given the high comorbidity of couples' life injuries, can be effective in preventing high medical costs and wasting time due to dealing with each of these injuries separately. But is Transdiagnostic Educational package, effective on couple communication patterns and secure transplantation?

The present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of Transdiagnostic Educational package, on Communication patterns and Secure Bond of couples.

In this research, qualitative method was used in the first stage and in the second stage; a semi-experimental research was used including pre-test, post-test, unequal control group and follow up. The study population included all couples who referred to Isfahan Family Counseling Centers in Isfahan in 1396. 20 couples were selected who were selected through purposeful sampling and randomly replaced into experimental and control group. The research instruments included the Communication Patterns Questionnaire of Christensen and Salavi (1984) and the Secure Bond Questionnaire of Johnson (2008), also a researcher-made Transdiagnostic Educational package, (1398) was used for intervention. The data was analyzed using multivariate analysis of covariance.

The results showed that content training of the Transdiagnostic Educational package, had a significant effect on couple's communication patterns and secure transplantation (p<0/001).

Based on the findings of the present study, training of the content of the Transdiagnostic Educational package of couples reduces withdrawal and avoidance expectation patterns and increases the constructive relationship and secure bonding pattern in couples.