COMPARISON OF THE EFFECT OF GROUP THERAPY BASED ON FAMILY SYSTEMS THEORY AND SHORT-TERM OBJECT RELATIONS COUPLE THERAPY ON THE WOMEN’S MARITAL INTIMACY

Jahanbakhshian, N and Tajikesmaeli, A and Sarrami Foroushani, G.R and Rasouli, M (2019) COMPARISON OF THE EFFECT OF GROUP THERAPY BASED ON FAMILY SYSTEMS THEORY AND SHORT-TERM OBJECT RELATIONS COUPLE THERAPY ON THE WOMEN’S MARITAL INTIMACY. The J Urmia Nurs Midwifery Fac, 17 (3). pp. 213-226.

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Abstract

The aim of present study was to compare the effect of group therapy based on family systems theory and short-term object relations couple therapy on the women’s marital intimacy. Material & Method: The research design in this study was pre-test, post-test experimental method with control group. The statistical population was included female clients of 25-55 years old with marital conflict referring to two Tehran psychological counseling centers in 2017. Sampling was done by selecting 36 volunteer women who answered to MIS scale, randomly assigned to two experimental and one control groups. One of experimental groups attended 16 sessions group therapy based on family system theory and the other one, group therapy based on short-term object relations couple theory that lasted nearly 90-120 minutes, hold once a week. Collected data was analyzed by using one way analysis of variance. Results: Research findings demonstrated both of interventions were effective on the women’s marital intimacy in post-test and follow up test of experimental groups (p<0.05) and there was no significant difference between two experimental groups (p>0.05) Conclusion: Research findings indicated that group therapy based on Bowen family systems theory and short-term object relations couple therapy leads to improvement of women’s marital intimacy in the both of experimental groups and these results have been also consistent enough in the follow-up period (p<0.05) and there was no significant difference between two experimental groups (p>0.05).

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: group therapy, Bowen family systems theory, short- term object relations couple therapy, marital intimacy
Subjects: R Medicine > RT Nursing
Depositing User: Unnamed user with email gholipour.s@umsu.ac.ir
Date Deposited: 10 Aug 2019 05:42
Last Modified: 10 Aug 2019 05:42
URI: http://eprints.umsu.ac.ir/id/eprint/5623

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