The Effectiveness of Plan-Based Couple Therapy on Forgiveness and Fear of Conflicting Couples Intimacy

Forgiveness and intimacy among couples is one of the important factors in creating lasting marriages because the more forgiveness and intimacy in couples, the lower the level of family conflicts, so the present study aims to establish the effectiveness of schema therapy on forgiveness and fear. It was done from the intimacy of a conflicting couple.

The quasi-experimental research design was a pre-test-post-test with a control group. One of the conflicting couples referred to counseling centers and psychological services in districts 1 and 5 of Tehran in 1398 in the Fear of Intimacy Questionnaire (FIS). Descanter and Thalen (1991) received high scores and on the IFI-25 interpersonal forgiveness scale Ehteshamzadeh, Ahadi, Enayati and Heidari (2010) received low scores. 20 couples (40 people) were randomly selected and randomly assigned to The experimental and control groups were replaced. The experimental group then participated in 12 90-minute schema therapy sessions. After the interventions, the groups completed the questionnaires again.

The results of analysis of covariance showed that schema-based couple therapy had a significant effect on forgiveness and fear of conflicting couples intimacy. In this way, schema therapy increased forgiveness and decreased fear of conflicting couples intimacy (p> 0.05.)

Plan-based couple therapy can be used by psychologists and counselors as an effective approach to increase forgiveness and reduce fear of couples intimacy.