Pnm-30: Effect of Group Therapy and Couple Therapy with CBT Approach in Reducing Pre-Trauma to Lactation in Parents

Background: Parents, in their joint life, with different developmental background, personality style, various experiences and family background as well as with the expectations that are the results of their families’ impacts or previous relationships, come to experience new things. These experiences have an impact on their daily behavior patterns, cognitions, quality of dealing with problems and conflicts and on their affective approaches in changing matrimony interactional patterns. This process is continued until the child's behavioral and affective disorders, as deferment in diagnosing children’s problems leads to the fact too that the child will be greatly overshadowed by a negative situation and that there will be unsolvable physical and intellectual problems in his or her rehabilitation or treatment process. This longitudinal study which lasted for two years investigated with the aim of primary prevention, the effect of group training, and combined couple therapy on sexual intimacy of partners during and before pregnancy, lactation, and also the effect of this type of treatment on parents-child stress during lactation. Materials and Methods: This study was carried out among 150 women, who had come to counseling centers and clinics of obstetrics and gynecology for beforepregnancy- health, in 2009, among whom 24 couples were selected randomly and placed in two groups of control and experiment and the pre and post-test method was used. The experimental group underwent 3, 9, 4 sessions of group training and 2, 3, 3 sessions of couple therapy before and durin gpregnancy plus lactation, respectively, for 9 months. The Bagarouzi’s Questionnaire of partners’ intimacy (emotional, psychological, sexual, physical, spiritual, esthetic, social-recreational intimacy) in all three levels and stress questionnaire were administered. Results: According to statistical results (in which t test was adopted), there is a significant difference between intimacy of partners undergoing treatment and stress of parent-child with the control group. Conclusion: Based on the results of this research, one of the most important factors in preventing and solving children’s future crises can be timely education before pregnancy, during pregnancy and lactation of parents in order that we can promote the mental health of family and safe environment for deeper and more influential and even more rapid physical-psychological development of child in future generation.