The Effectiveness of Rational, emotional and behavioral therapy onForgiveness and Resilience of Women Affected by Marital Infidelity

Marital infidelity which has been growing in recent decades can have a negative impact on couples and especially the women. Present study attempted to investigate the effectiveness of treatment based on rational, emotional and behavioral therapy on the amount of forgiveness and resilience among women affected by marital infidelity. This study is a quasi-experimental one with a pretestposttest design and control group. The statistical population includes all women affected by marital infidelity in Shiraz twenty of whom were selected via purposeful sampling from counseling clinics and randomly divided into two experimental and control groups. Intervention was performed two days a week for 14 sessions each lasting for 90 minutes and the follow-up stage was performed two months after the intervention. In order to collect data, Conner and Davidson’s Resilience and Rye’s forgiveness Questionnaires were used. Data were analyzed by SPSS version 23 and analyzed by using ANOVA and repeated measures. The results showed a significant difference between the experimental and control groups with regard to forgiveness and resilience scores. It can be concluded that treatment based on rational, emotional and behavioral approach can increase forgiveness and resilience in women affected by marital infidelity and thereby guarantee the mental health among them.