Investigating the effectiveness of unified transdiagnostic therapy on marital intimacy, mental vitality and emotional expressiveness in women with marital burnout

marriage is a turning point in human life and one of the most important decisions of any person throughout life. Factors such as conflict and quarrel may threaten the health of living together. Methods of reducing healthrelated problems include unified trans-diagnostic therapy. The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of unified trans-diagnostic therapy on marital intimacy, mental vitality and emotional expressiveness in women with marital burnout.

The design of the research was semiexperimental with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. The statistical population of the research included women with marital burnout who referred to family counseling and psychological centers of Razi, Omid Farda, Hayat at Karaj city from September 23th, 2023 to March 19th, 2024, and their number reached 150. In order to select the sample size, 24 women with high marital burnout were selected based on the purposeful sampling method and based on the entry and exit criteria they were randomly assigned into two groups: a unified trans-diagnostic test group (12 people) and a control group (12 people). The experimental group received ten 45-minute sessions of unified trans-diagnostic therapy of Barlow et al. (2011) once a week.

the data were analyzed using the covariance analysis test in SPSS version 26 software. The P value was considered less than 0.05 meaningful. The results of covariance analysis indicated that unified trans-diagnostic therapy has a significant effect on marital intimacy, mental vitality and emotional expressiveness in women with marital burnout (001/0>P). The effect on the marital intimacy variable was 832/0% on the square of Eta coefficient, 567/0% on the mental life variable, and 731/0% on the emotional expressiveness variable.

therefore, the results of the present study indicate that unified trans-diagnostic therapy can lead to improved marital intimacy, emotional expressiveness and mental vitality in women with marital burnout. So this finding can be of interest to family counseling centers, psychologists, and couples.