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Saeedi M. The Effectiveness of Short-Term Solution Therapy on Marital Conflicts, Communication Skills and Family Functioning in Women on the Verge of Divorce. RJMS 2022; 29 (5) :218-226
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Department of Psychology, Tonekabon Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon, Iran , saeidimaryam132@gmail.com
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Background & Aims: Family plays a special role in shaping people's psychological behavior. While family functions can be conceptualized as a set of key goals of the family as a system, family functioning can be conceptualized as how the family performs its functions. In general, family functioning includes the ability of the family to perform the tasks necessary to achieve the well-being of the family and the ability to adapt to changing conditions. Many researchers define the concept of family functioning as the ability of the family to coordinate or adapt to the changes created during life, resolve conflicts and conflicts, solidarity between members and success in disciplinary patterns, respect the limits and boundaries between people, and implement the rules and regulations and governing principles. They have considered this institution to protect the entire system and have evaluated it as an important variable in measuring the family. On the other hand, women are considered an important pillar in the family, and women's health is the basis of family and society health, they have a special importance in ensuring and maintaining the health of the family and society. Women are on the verge of divorce, usually, the functioning of their family and their marital conflicts have reached such a point that they feel they have to end their life together, and this is why they sometimes look for solutions, but at the time of divorce or divorce Solutions should be used so that these women can reach their desired result at the right time. Marriage is a relationship, this relationship allows husband and wife to discuss and exchange ideas with each other and to be aware of each other's needs, couples' relationships are aimed at satisfying all levels of needs, and for this reason, the most common form that unhappy couples bring it up, it is the lack of success in establishing a relationship. Communication is valuable in resolving interpersonal conflicts. Also, since social support is a type of verbal behavior in which a person responds to the needs of others by comforting, encouraging, reassuring, caring, and helping, and on the other hand, social support increases marital satisfaction, it can be said Communication skills can also be effective in increasing marital satisfaction by strengthening the expression of social support. Although communication difficulties are not the only cause of marital discord, they nevertheless characterize troubled relationships and seem to exacerbate existing problems. Constant turmoil in the relationship often leads to steps towards divorce and separation. By examining the data and evidence available in society and people's lives, we are faced with the phenomenon of increasing divorce, marital disputes, and the weakening of family foundations, which has side effects on family members. In addition, many couples live together despite being dissatisfied with their married life for various reasons. The most significant problems reported by couples are communication and financial issues. Solution-oriented therapy is one of the most effective ways to help people with poor mental health. This approach, instead of emphasizing people's defects and inabilities, focuses on highlighting people's capabilities and successes and creating supportive relationships during the treatment process. This treatment method believes that clients have the skills and creativity necessary for change in their era. Therefore, the main question of this study is whether short-term solution therapy has an effect on marital conflicts, communication skills, and family functioning in women on the verge of divorce.
Methods: The research method is based on the objective of a semi-experimental type with an experimental and control group. The statistical population of this research included all women on the verge of divorce in Lahijan city. According to the purpose of the research, the sample size is 30 people who should be replaced in the control and experimental groups. To select the sample, it was done through random cluster sampling in such a way that first of all, medical centers and clinics were referred to and they were asked for married couples who have referred to them for divorce counseling and at least six months of their marriage have passed. are also under the treatment of this center to the researcher to participate in the research for this purpose they were contacted and it was ensured that they are interested in participating in the research in the initial stage of the questionnaires of marital conflicts, skills Communication and family functioning were distributed among those who were eligible to participate in the research and after collecting the scores, those who had a lower score were selected and were again assured of their interest in participating in the research, and in the next stage, 30 people who had the lowest They were selected and randomly divided into two groups of 15 people, test and control. The study tools in this research included Sanai Zaker and Barati's Marital Conflicts Questionnaire (2004), Queen Dam's Communication Skills (2004), and Epstein and Bishab's Family Performance Assessment (1983). The solution-oriented therapy sessions lasted for six sessions and six weeks. The data obtained by the questionnaires were analyzed by the statistical method of analysis of covariance and all the statistical topics were done using SPSS software version 22 at a significance level of 0.05.
Results: The results showed that there is a significant difference between the adjusted mean of marital conflicts, communication skills, and family functioning in the experimental and control groups. As a result, it can be said that short-term solution therapy has had a significant effect on the improvement of marital conflicts, communication skills, and family functioning in the experimental group. Also, according to the eta square, it can be concluded that the effect of short-term solution therapy on the variable of marital conflicts of people is 50%, the communication skill of people is 45%, and the family performance of women on the verge of divorce is 70%.
Conclusion: In general, it can be concluded that short-term solution therapy has a significant effect on marital conflicts, communication skills, and family functioning in women on the verge of divorce. The opinion of the solution-oriented approach is that the search for the etiology of a problem is futile and only adds to the complexity of the problem and acts as an obstacle in the way of identifying useful solutions. It increases the resilience of clients' problems. Ultimately, this problem-oriented thinking leads to a negative cycle that, by ruminating on problems and not discovering appropriate solutions, the problem is aggravated and traps the person in a continuous cycle of despair. As several studies have shown, rumination acts as a risk factor, a major factor for problems related to depression and depression relapse, and is a negative predictor for life satisfaction and quality of life. Rumination also leads to decreased concentration, negative cognitive orientation, and impaired problem-solving skills. It is on this basis that problem-oriented thinking does not seem very appropriate. On the other hand, cognitive processing that is based on solution-oriented thinking will not focus too much on problems and their causes, and during this cognitive processing, a huge part of a person's energy will be preserved for discovering appropriate solutions and using cognitive resources appropriately. Which creates a lot of action potential for clients, so it is expected that the solution-oriented thinking style is associated with psychological well-being and favorable psychological effects. The main reason for this problem can be the burden of thinking about the existing solutions in such a way that reaching each of the goals provides a person with various solutions and leads to the creation of new solutions to deal with the problems.
Methods: The research method is based on the objective of a semi-experimental type with an experimental and control group. The statistical population of this research included all women on the verge of divorce in Lahijan city. According to the purpose of the research, the sample size is 30 people who should be replaced in the control and experimental groups. To select the sample, it was done through random cluster sampling in such a way that first of all, medical centers and clinics were referred to and they were asked for married couples who have referred to them for divorce counseling and at least six months of their marriage have passed. are also under the treatment of this center to the researcher to participate in the research for this purpose they were contacted and it was ensured that they are interested in participating in the research in the initial stage of the questionnaires of marital conflicts, skills Communication and family functioning were distributed among those who were eligible to participate in the research and after collecting the scores, those who had a lower score were selected and were again assured of their interest in participating in the research, and in the next stage, 30 people who had the lowest They were selected and randomly divided into two groups of 15 people, test and control. The study tools in this research included Sanai Zaker and Barati's Marital Conflicts Questionnaire (2004), Queen Dam's Communication Skills (2004), and Epstein and Bishab's Family Performance Assessment (1983). The solution-oriented therapy sessions lasted for six sessions and six weeks. The data obtained by the questionnaires were analyzed by the statistical method of analysis of covariance and all the statistical topics were done using SPSS software version 22 at a significance level of 0.05.
Results: The results showed that there is a significant difference between the adjusted mean of marital conflicts, communication skills, and family functioning in the experimental and control groups. As a result, it can be said that short-term solution therapy has had a significant effect on the improvement of marital conflicts, communication skills, and family functioning in the experimental group. Also, according to the eta square, it can be concluded that the effect of short-term solution therapy on the variable of marital conflicts of people is 50%, the communication skill of people is 45%, and the family performance of women on the verge of divorce is 70%.
Conclusion: In general, it can be concluded that short-term solution therapy has a significant effect on marital conflicts, communication skills, and family functioning in women on the verge of divorce. The opinion of the solution-oriented approach is that the search for the etiology of a problem is futile and only adds to the complexity of the problem and acts as an obstacle in the way of identifying useful solutions. It increases the resilience of clients' problems. Ultimately, this problem-oriented thinking leads to a negative cycle that, by ruminating on problems and not discovering appropriate solutions, the problem is aggravated and traps the person in a continuous cycle of despair. As several studies have shown, rumination acts as a risk factor, a major factor for problems related to depression and depression relapse, and is a negative predictor for life satisfaction and quality of life. Rumination also leads to decreased concentration, negative cognitive orientation, and impaired problem-solving skills. It is on this basis that problem-oriented thinking does not seem very appropriate. On the other hand, cognitive processing that is based on solution-oriented thinking will not focus too much on problems and their causes, and during this cognitive processing, a huge part of a person's energy will be preserved for discovering appropriate solutions and using cognitive resources appropriately. Which creates a lot of action potential for clients, so it is expected that the solution-oriented thinking style is associated with psychological well-being and favorable psychological effects. The main reason for this problem can be the burden of thinking about the existing solutions in such a way that reaching each of the goals provides a person with various solutions and leads to the creation of new solutions to deal with the problems.
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