The effect of schema therapy on resiliencylevel among women on the verge of divorce in Tehran

Bonanno (2004) believes that resiliency can be obtained through tenacity, self-promotion, repressive opposition, possession of positive feelings and mood. Resiliency is not just resistance against damages or threatening situations and an inactive status in the face of dangerous conditions, but it is active participation in one’s surrounding environment. It can be stated that resiliency is the individual’s capacity to establish biological-mental balance in dangerous situations [2]. Moreover, researchers believe that resiliency is a type of self-restoration using positive exciting, emotional, and cognitive events [3].Resiliency variable has an indirect effect on the level of satisfaction with life. In other words, resiliency results in positive attitude and thus satisfaction with life by influencing the types of the individuals’ feelings and excitements. Reduction in the level of resiliency against life events is associated with mental pressure, anxiety, and/or depression. In other words, the first result of enhancing an individual’s capacity of resiliency is a reduction in emotional and mental problems, an increase in mental health, and thus a rise in the individual’s satisfaction with life [4].Schema refers to mental patterns and assumptions about the realities of the outside world [5]. After a child is born, he assumes whatever it sees and experiences as reality; however, reality is something different.In explaining the effectiveness of schema therapy it should be stated that it provides the opportunity for change by affecting the individual’s different dimensions including cognitive, experimental, emotional, and behavioral aspects. In the cognitive dimension, by focusing on the internalized voices of the parents, i.e. the deepest level of cognition, schema therapy tries to help dissatisfied couples become aware of the root of their thoughts and challenge the schema and uncontrolled thoughts and obtain a new attitude toward conjugal relationships by examining the reliability of the schema and figuring out a new definition for the evidence to reject or approve the schema. Over years, individuals highlight information that is in agreement with the schema and ignore the information that is in disagreement, and this procedure will continue in conjugal relationship, and they observe how the schema fight for its survival in conjugal relationships [5].Divorce is the most significant cause of disruption in the structure of the most fundamental part of the society, i.e. family. Literally, it means get rid of marriage and terminating the marriage covenant. It is a contractual phenomenon that enables man and woman to terminate their marriage and get separated [6].Studies have indicated that schema therapy can be effective in reducing the tendency to get divorce [5]. Schema-based treatment of couples is effective in improving the couples’ function [7]. Initial incompatible schemas play an important role in predicting mental welfare among divorced women [8] and in occurrence of divorce risk[9]. Solution-based treatment can influence the resiliency and boredom of divorced couples [10]. The intervention group treated with schema-based method is a more effective method in improving the individual’s overall function compared to methods [11]. All in all, ignorance of childhood causes formation of incompatible schema-based approaches in adulthood which threaten emotional control.In explaining the effectiveness of schema therapy, it should be stated that schema therapy provides the opportunity for changes by the individual’s multiple dimensions, these dimensions include cognitive, experimental, emotional, and behavioral aspects. In the cognitive dimension, by focusing on the internalized voices of the parents, i.e. the deepest level of cognition, schema therapy tries to help dissatisfied couples become aware of the root of their thoughts and challenge the schema and uncontrolled thoughts and obtain a new attitude toward conjugal relationships by examining the reliability of the schema and figuring out a new definition for the evidence to reject or approve the schema. Over years, individuals highlight information that is in agreement with the schema and ignore the information that is in disagreement, and this procedure will continue in conjugal relationship, and they observe how the schema fight for its survival in conjugal relationships. Asa summary of the individual’s healthy responses, identification of the schema origin, and inefficient thoughts, schema is the best aid helping the individual identify schema-motivating situations, spot negative behaviors, and how to replace healthy behaviors in conjugal relationships, which results in the individual being aware of the schemas and provides the conditions for the individual and thus the couples’ relationship to change [5].Bearing in mind the above-mentioned points, the present study was intended to respond to the question whether schema therapy has a significant effect on resiliency of women who are on the verge of divorce or indent to get divorce.