The Effect of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Based on Religious Attitudes on Resiliency and Dysfunctional Attitudes of Couples

The present research was intended to study the effectiveness of religious-based cognitive-behavioral treatment on the couples’ resiliency and dysfunctional attitude. In an experimental design with pre and post-test and control group. 30 married women who had a low dysfunctional attitude and high resiliency were selected, through available sampling they matched on the basis of age, social-economic status, not having physical diseases, having a standard deviation upper than the average in the DAS Dysfunctional Attitude Questionnaire, having a standard deviation lower than the average in the Kaner and Davidson’s resiliency Questionnaire. Other intended variables of the study were homogeneous. Then the participants were randomly divided into experience and control groups. For the experience group, there were ten 45 minute sessions of religious-based cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy, while there was no intervention in the control group. Findings showed that there were significant differences between the experience and control groups after performing the religious-based cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy.The range of experience group’s Dysfunctional attitude significantly decreased in comparison to control group but the level of resiliency increased.