The Effectiveness of Emotion-Focused Couple Therapy on Increasing Emotional Regulation and Depression in Couples Seeking Divorce
Subject Areas : Journal of Excellence in counseling and psychotherapy
Laden
Goran Savadkoohi
1
(Master of Educational Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Research Sciences Branch, Tehran, Iran)
Ali
Ghorbannejad
2
(PhD in Educational Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Bojnourd Branch, Bojnourd, Iran)
Keywords: Depression, emotion regulation, Emotion-Based Couples Therapy, Divorce Seeking Couples,
Abstract :
Purpouse: The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of emotion-based couple therapy on increasing the emotional regulation of couples seeking divorce. Method: The present study in terms of applied purpose in terms of quantitative method and in terms of data collection was a quasi-experimental method that was performed with a pre-test post-test design with a control group. The statistical population was all couples seeking divorce who referred to Nima Counseling Center in Tehran, District 3, in 2017. Of these, 18 couples were selected by available sampling method and based on a score below the average on the Depression Scale (Beck, 1976). They were matched and randomly replaced in the experimental and control groups and answered the Emotion Regulation Difficulty Scale (DERS; Gertz and Roemer, 2004) and the Depression Inventory (Beck, 1976) in the pre-test and post-test stages. The experimental group then received emotion-based couple therapy for 9 weeks. [1]Findings: Multivariate analysis of covariance, univariate and Tukey post hoc tests were used to analyze the data. The results showed that emotion-focused couple therapy has a significant effect on increasing emotional regulation and depression in couples seeking divorce. Conclusion: Emotional couple therapy causes awareness, experience and acceptance of normal emotions in couples seeking divorce and brings them to a level of security, after which they express their attachment needs and desires with more confidence and in At the same time, they will be more responsive to each other and will eventually have a greater ability to regulate emotions.
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