Hossein Mohagheghi; Mohammad Reza Roshanaei
Abstract
One of the most important issues that, in addition to disrupting the family unit and the couple's relationship, aggravates the injury in the injured person, is post-traumatic stress disorder caused by domestic violence. The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of emotion-focused couple ...
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One of the most important issues that, in addition to disrupting the family unit and the couple's relationship, aggravates the injury in the injured person, is post-traumatic stress disorder caused by domestic violence. The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of emotion-focused couple therapy approach on post-traumatic stress disorder caused by domestic violence. The quasi-experimental research method was pretest-posttest with a control group. The statistical population included all women affected by the phenomenon of spousal violence. Thirty subjects who had a moderate to high symptom range in the FOA (2003) Emotional PTSD scale scores were selected by purposive sampling method and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The subjects in the experimental group participated in a group program of emotional couple therapy for 15 sessions, but the control group did not receive any intervention. The results of the analysis showed that emotional couple therapy is effective in reducing the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder in women affected by domestic violence (p <0.001 and F = 505.61) and this effect is stable in the follow-up phase. Since emotion-oriented couple therapy regulates a person's emotions and due to the effectiveness of this approach in couples involved in domestic violence, its use as a therapeutic approach in this type of issues is recommended.
