Effectiveness of Integrated Gottman-Emotional Focused Approaches on Decreasing the Desire for Divorce and Increasing Marital Adjustment

Willingness to divorce is the desire of couples to separate and break up marital relations. In examining the cause of divorce, paying attention to individual and psychological causes, such as the desire for divorce and the degree of marital adjustment , is of particular importance. The aim of the present study was to determine the effectiveness of the integrated approach of Hijan Madar-Gutman on increasing marital adjustment and reducing the desire for divorce in conflicted couples. For this purpose, 30 maried person applying for divorce who visited Mehrpaya clinic in Mashhad in 1402 were selected. In this research, a semi-experimental design was used. The therapeutic protocol of the combined emotion-centered-Gutman approach was implemented for the experimental group and the couples answered the questionnaire of desire to divorce and marital adjustment. The results showed that the rate of improvement in the variable of desire to divorce and marital adjustment in the integrated emotional circuit-Gutman approach group in the post-treatment phase was significantly better than the control group.Therefore, it is concluded that in order to reduce the desire for divorce in couples applying for a consensual divorce, it is possible to use the combined emotion-oriented-Gutman approach in therapy sessions and consultations.

Effectiveness of Integrated Gottman-Emotional Focused Approaches on Decreasing the Desire for Divorce and Increasing Marital Adjustment Keywords:

Guttman's emotion-focused approach , desire for divorce , marital Adjustment.