The effect of dialectical behavior therapy skills training on shame, cognitive flexibility and marital adjustment of women with spouses quitting addiction in Isfahan city

Due to the increasing problems and consequences of addiction such as divorce and the need for intervention and education in this category, this study investigated the effect of dialectical behavior therapy skills training on shame, cognitive flexibility and marital adjustment of women with addicted spouses of quitting. Therefore, from among women present in the NAR-ANAN family groups in Isfahan, 30 of them who met the inclusion criteria were selected and randomly divided into control and experimental groups, they answered questionnaires of Shame )Cohen, Wolf, Panter and Insko, 2010(, Marital Adjustment (Spanier, 1979) and Cognitive Flexibility (Dennis and Vanderwall, 2010) on two occasions (before and after the intervention). Then, the experimental group received 90 minutes of group training based on dialectical behavior therapy skills for 14 sessions once a week. During this period, the control group did not receive any training. Finally, the obtained data were analyzed using univariate analysis of covariance by SPSS-22 software. The results showed that dialectical behavior therapy skills training as a group was effective on the level of shame and marital adjustment in the experimental group compared to the control group (P <0.01) but had not effect on their cognitive flexibility compared to the control group (P>0/05). The results show that group dialectical behavior therapy skills can reduce the shame of women with addicted spouses of quitting and lead to improved marital adjustment in them.Keywords: addiction, cognitive flexibility, sham, skills dialectical behavior therapy, marital adjustment, women with spouses quitting addiction