Comparing the Effectiveness of Couple Therapy with Imago-Therapy and Feldman's Integrated Approach on Intimacy Commitment of Conflicting Spouses

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• leila cheraey ¹
• Mahmod Goudarzi ²
• Maryam akbary ³

¹ Department of family counseling, sanandaj branch, Islamic azad University, Sanandaj, Iran

² Assistant Professor Department of family counseling, sanandaj branch, Islamic azad University, Sanandaj, Iran.

³ Assistant Professor Department of family counseling, sanandaj branch, Islamic azad University, Sanandaj, Iran

Abstract

Intimacy among couples is one of the important factors in creating a stable marriage.Marriage has always been considered as the beginning of family formation and hence is a complex and very delicate human relationship. The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of couple therapy with Imago-therapy and Feldman's integrated approach on couples' on the marital intimacy of conflicting couples in Tehran. This research was a semi-experimental study with a pretest and posttest design and a follow up with the control group. The statistical population of this study included all of the conflicted couples who referred to the Office of Women's Affair of the Post Bank of the 6th District Municipality and the Psychology Clinic of the District 22 of Tehran Municipality in 2018. 15 couples among them were divided into experimental group (each group of 5 couples) and control group (5 couples). For this purpose, Barati and Sanei's marital conflicts questionnaire and Bagarozzi marital commitment questionnaire were used to collect data.

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Keywords

• Couples Therapy
• Imago-therapy؛ Integrated feldman؛ Intimacy؛ Marital Conflict

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