The Effectiveness of Emotion-focused Couple Therapy on Resilience and Cognitive Fusion in Couples Seeking Divorce

The current study has been performed to evaluate the effectiveness of emotion-based couple therapy on resilience and cognitive fusion in couples seeking divorce in Tabriz city.

This research was a quasi-experimental design. The statistical population of the study was all couples seeking divorce in Tabriz in 2021. 30 of them were purposefully selected. Resilience and fusion questionnaires and emotion-based couple therapy protocol were used in order to collect data. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistical methods of mean and standard deviation and inferential statistical methods of multivariate analysis of covariance.

The results showed that emotion-focused couple therapy increases resilience and decreases cognitive integration, which is significant at the level of P <0.1.

Based on the results of this study, emotion-oriented couple therapy can be used as an effective intervention for couples seeking divorce.