This study was conducted to investigate the efficacy of acceptance and commitment therapy on the marital adjustment of war veteran’s spouse

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Esmat  Nasyri Dshtaki ¹ (دانشجو)
Rezvan  Salehi ² (استاد)
Mahnaz  Torab Ahmady ³ (دانشجو)
Mojgan  Niknam ⁴ (عضو هیات علمی)

Received: 2016-03-15 Accepted : 2016-05-04 Published : 2015-08-23

Keywords: Key words: marital adjustment, Acceptance and Commitment therapy, spouses of veterans,

Abstract :

This study was conducted to investigate the efficacy of acceptance and commitment therapy on the marital adjustment of war veteran’s spouse. The population of this study includes all spouses of veterans of region 5 of Tehran who visited to the medical centers of region 5 in Tehran during the second half of 94. The samples of study were 28 members of war veterans' wives of Region five in Tehran that has been selected by the voluntary sampling among the clients of medical centers of education of region 5 in Tehran and were Assignmented randomly in the both experimental and control groups of 14 persons. Member of the experimental group treated based on acceptance and commitment therapy but did not perform any intervention in the control group. After application of treatment carried out the post-test on the two groups. The research instruments was the Walker and Spanierʼs dyadic adjustment  scale (1976). finally, the data have been analyzed by Analysis of Covariance. The results showed that acceptance and commitment therapy has lead to increasing marital adjustment of the spouses of veterans.