The Comparison of Effectiveness of Family Therapy Bowen's and Menuchin on emotional divorce and improvement quality of life couples clients to health house

Subject Areas : Educational management

shadab shirzadi ¹ , abdollah shafiabady ² , farideh dokaneheeifard ³

1 - Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran
2 - Allameh Tabatabaii University. Tehran, Iran
3 - Azad University of Roodehen, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2018-03-09 Accepted : 2018-04-11 Published : 2018-05-22

Keywords: quality of life, Minuchin family therapy, Emotional divorce, Bowen&#039, s family therapy,

Abstract :

Present study aimed at comparison of effectiveness of Family Therapy Bowen's and Minuchin on emotional divorce and improvement quality of life couples clients to health house in six district of Tehran. The method of present study was quasi-experimental with experimental and control groups and two months follow-up. The sample, including 48 couples' clients to health house in six district of Tehran, was selected in available manner and were assigned randomly into three groups (two experiment and one control) (each group 16 persons). The first experiment group received 8 (90 minutes for each session) Bowen's Family therapy sessions and the second the same numbers for Minuchin's Family therapy ones and control group were placed in waiting list. Tools used in this study were included emotional divorce (Guttmann, 2008) and quality of life (World Health Organization, 1996), questionnaire that were completed by participants in pretest, post-test and follow-up stages. Data were analyzed using analysis of covariance. In posttest and follow-up phase, there was a significant difference in emotional divorce and quality of life scores between family therapy Bowen's and Minuchin groups with control group (p0.05). Results of present study showed that Bowen's and Minuchin family therapy can be utilized for reducing emotional divorce and improving quality of life of couples.