The efficacy of positive couple therapy and treatment based on acceptance and commitment on the desire for divorce

Research has shown that positivist psychotherapy leads to marital adjustment and a reduction in the desire for divorce in couples. On the other hand, acceptance and commitment therapy has been effective in reducing issues such as conflict and conflict, adaptation and commitment means having a rich and meaningful life, but there is a research gap in comparing the two approaches.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of positive couple therapy and treatment based on acceptance and commitment on reducing the desire for divorce in couples.

The method of the present study was quasi-experimental with a pretest-posttest design with a control group in. The statistical population included all couples seeking divorce who had referred to Iranshahr family counseling centers in 2020 for couple therapy. 45 couples were selected by convenience sampling method and then randomly divided into two groups of 30 experimental and one group of 30 controls. Participants responded to the Roosevelt, Johnson & Moro (1986) Divorce Desire Questionnaire. Couples therapy training - Positive Seligman and Csikszentmihalyi (2000) and therapy based on acceptance and commitment Hayes, Strosahl and Wilson (2012) in 8 sessions of 90 minutes on the experimental groups and after the post-test sessions Done. Finally, after the post-test, the results were analyzed by analysis of covariance.

The results showed that couples therapy, positive therapy and treatment based on acceptance and commitment were effective in reducing the desire for divorce in couples (P <0.01). Also, positive couple therapy training had a more significant effect than acceptance and commitment therapy (P <0.01).

Considering that both interventions had a strong effect on reducing the desire for divorce, but positive couple therapy was more effective in reducing the desire for divorce and negligence, so the combination of these two methods in couple therapy interventions will probably lead to more effective results.