Effectiveness of Integrative Unified Trans-Diagnostic Treatment on Inefficient Attitudes and Marital Burnout in the Women with Marital Conflict

The present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness Integrative Unified Trans-Diagnostic Treatment on inefficient attitudes and marital burnout in the women with marital conflict.

The present study was quasiexperimental with pretest, posttest design and control group and two-month follow-up stage. The statistical population included women with marital conflict who referred to consultation centers in the summer and autumn of 2019 and 2020 in Tehran. 40 women with marital conflict were selected through purposive sampling method and they were randomly replaced into experimental and control groups (each group of 20 women). After decreasing the numbers, 34 women remained in the study (16 women in the experimental group and 18 women in the control group). The experimental group received ten ninety-minute sessions of integrative Unified Trans-Diagnostic Treatment (Boyse et.al, 2010) during twoand-a-half months. The applied questionnaires in this study included inefficient attitudes questionnaire (Wiseman and Beck, 1978) and marital burnout questionnaire (Painz, 1996). The data from the study were analyzed through repeated measurement ANOVA.

The results showed that Integrative Unified Trans-Diagnostic Treatment has had significant effect (p<0.001) on inefficient attitudes and marital burnout of the women with marital conflict and it was able to lead to the decrease of inefficient attitudes and marital burnout in these women.

According to the findings of the present study it can be concluded that Integrative Unified Trans-Diagnostic Treatment can be applied as an efficient therapy to decrease inefficient attitudes and marital burnout of the women with marital conflicts through employing techniques such as identifying emotions, training emotional awareness, cognitive reevaluation, identifying models of avoiding emotion and investigating behaviors resulting from emotion.