the effect of solution- focused short-term approach on marital conflict decrease in qom

abstract background: conflict is the lack of agreement and disagreement between the two men, and behavioral maladjustment or objectives that are in opposition to the other. destructive conflicts are incidents imposed on one or more than one member of the family or the whole family and affect on them. the purpose of this research is to study the effect of solution - focused short-term approach on marital conflict decrease in qom. methods: this research is semi-experimental with pretest, posttest and two groups of experimental and control. the populations are couples referring to family counseling centers in qom and they were self –introduced. the samples were 50 couples who were volunteer to attend in this research, selected available and allocated randomly into two groups of experimental and control. the research measures were demographic characteristics and sanaei’s marital conflict questionnaire. to analyze the data, covariance analysis and also descriptive statistics were used. findings: the data analysis showed solution-focused approach is effective on couples’ all conflicts (p<0.001, f=24.089). also ,it is influenced on  subscales of cooperation decrease(p<0.001, f=7.4) ,sexual relationship decrease(p<0.001, f=50.4), emotional reactions increase (p<0.001, f=10.89), the increase of child’s support attraction( p<0.001, f=22.3), the increase of relationship with their relatives(p<0.001, f=77.4), the decrease of relationship with the spouse’s relatives and friends(p<0.001, f=31.02), separation of financial issues from each other(p<0.001, f=71.1) and effective relationship decrease conclusion: making problem -solving skills in couples can prevent many difficulties. problem-solving instruction is very important as one of daily life skills and it is used a lot in solution-focused approach. we can help couples solve their problems and increase their marital life satisfaction with these techniques.