Lifestyle and Attachment Needs: Emotional-Focused TherapyPerspective

The study’s main purpose was to check the effectiveness of the resilient maritalrelationship lifestyle to feed the attachment needs of young couples. To touch the researchgoal, an ABA single-subject design was used. The sample consisted of six young couplesbetween ۲۶ to ۳۸ years old. The Resilient Marital Relationship Program (RMR Program)was used as an experimental intervention in this study. The RMR Program was designedto help Iranian young couples to cope with their marital conflicts by considering attachmentneeds. The RMR Program was focused on resilient beliefs, resilient lifestyles, resilientmarital strategies, and, resilient marital techniques. The attachment needs scale, briefresilience scale, and healthy family life scale were used in this study. The intervention wasrun in ۵ virtual space sessions with two virtual assessments for the first two stages (AB)and one for the second A stage of the design. Visual analysis and statistical Indexesrevealed that attachment needs to improve after running the RMR Program. In sum, theRMR Program is an effective intervention for feeding the attachment needs of youngcouples.

Keywords:

Lifestyle , Attachment Needs , Emotional-Focused Therapy