Context: Couple treatment for pathological gambling is an innovative strategy. There are some results supporting its potential effectiveness, but little is known about the subjective experiences of the participants. Objective: The aim of this article is to document the experiences of gamblers and their partners participating in one of two treatments, namely individual or couple. Method: In a st...

Background: Women and men who have infertility problems, are faced with numerous psychological pressures, including changes in family environment and social networks, sexual problems and challenges of infertility stress which are associated with depression and psychological distress and can result in premature withdrawal of medical infertility treatments and unresolved feelings of loss and grie...

Much of the empirical data available about therapeutic alliance and its relationship to termination status come from individual psychotherapies. We know less about therapeutic alliance in couple therapy. A unique characteristic of alliance in couple or family therapy is the possibility of discrepancies in alliance between system members. In this study we sought to demonstrate three statistical ...

the aim of this study is to explore the impact of choice theory and reality therapy interventions on couples` marital satisfaction. this study applied the single - subject method with ab design. the participants of the study were two couples who were selected as a purposeful sample to participate at the intervention program of 8 sessions of training of choice theory and reality therapy. in orde...

the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between family function and marital satisfaction with marital disaffection of married couples (teachers)  in behshahr.   the research method is descriptive and co-relational. the study sample group consisted of 250 married teachers in 2016, of which 150 of them were selected according to morgan random sampling. the research instruments w...