background:: nowadays, because of sexual dissatisfaction 50% of marriages are not successful. since unhealthy relationship between couples makes them dissatisfied and misunderstanding which along with other circumstances make the foundation of the family unstable and increase the possibility of divorce. therefore, marital counseling can give couples the necessary information for a good sexual l...

the effect of marital counseling on marital satisfaction of parents of mental retarded children     jenaabadi h [1] *     received: 15 mar , 2012 accepted: 14 jun , 2012    abstract   background & aims: parents of mental retarded children have many problems in maintenance, training and education of their children. these problems have negative impact on parent’s mental health and marital satisfa...

BACKGROUND Marital conflict and divorce are prevalent in our society, and patients frequently ask family physicians to assist them with marital difficulties. These difficulties are often associated with a decline in health, resulting in additional stress to the marital unit. METHODS A MEDLINE search was undertaken using the key words "family medicine," "marital therapy," "marital counseling,"...

INTRODUCTION One of the most important factors in marital satisfaction is the satisfaction of a healthy sexual relationship between spouses. During pregnancy marital satisfaction may decrease due to sexual problems. Sexual counseling to pregnant women may reduce the complications of these problems at this time. This study aimed to investigate the effects of sexual counseling on marital satisfac...

Background: Infertility is a global problem which affects interpersonal and social relationships and threatens marital life of infertile couples. Females with infertility experiences less marital satisfaction than infertile males. Objectives: The present study aimed to examine the effect of collaborative infertility counseling on marital satisfaction in females with infertility, undergoing in-v...

This study investigates the relative contributions of social desirability attitudes, previous number of multicultural counseling courses taken, and racism and White racial identity attitudes together in predicting marital and family therapists' self-reported multicultural counseling competence. Results revealed that, when controlling for social desirability attitudes and the number of multicult...

Thirty-six newly abstinent married male alcoholics, who had recently begun outpatient individual alcoholism counseling, were randomly assigned to a no-marital-therapy control group or to 10 weekly sessions of a behavioral marital therapy (BMT) or an interactional couples group. The cost-benefit analysis of BMT plus individual alcoholism counseling showed (a) decreases in health care and legal c...

Introduction: Considering the importance of the family institution and that marital satisfaction plays the most important role in sustainability of marital life, this study aimed to investigate the mediating role of irrational beliefs in the relationship between family relationship quality and marital satisfaction. Material and Methods: It was a correlation exploratory research. The statistical...

Objective: To determine marital satisfaction and its influencing factors among fertile and infertile women in Shahroud. Materials and methods: In this comparative study, 1528 participants (511 infertile and1017 fertile women) were evaluated using Enrich Marital Satisfaction Scale. Data were analyzed using chi-square and t-test. Results: A total of 1402 participants (78.7%) had high marital sati...