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Background:
In couple and family
therapy, brief solution-focused treatment is a branch of the post-modern
approach focusing on solutions to solve the problems. The
current research was performed by the aim of studying the effect of brief solution-
focused group couple therapy on improving marital quality in women.
Methods: The
method of the research is semi-experimental the design is pretest-posttest and
follow-up with control group. The population included all the women visiting Hamyaran Salamat Ravan (mental health helpers) institute in
Bojnourd city in 2013. 30 women were selected using available sampling method,
and they were replaced in two groups of experiment and control by random
assignment method. The study tool was the Golombok-Rust Inventory of Marital
State (GRIMS) that was completed by the participants in pretest, posttest and
follow-up (one month) stages. The experiment group received the intervention
for 7 sessions of 1.5-hour, but the control group did not receive any intervention.
Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and single variable covariance
analyze through SPSS v.18.
Results:
Results of the covariance analysis indicated that brief solution-focused group
couple therapy leads to improvement of marital relationships quality among the
women in the experiment group, and these results have been also consistent
enough in the follow-up period.
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