Author(s)

Azadeh Shirashiani¹, Ebrahim Namani^2*

¹MA in Counseling, Department of Psychology, Department of Psychological Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Neyshabur Branch, Islamic Azad University, Neyshabur, Iran.
²Assistant Professor of Counseling, Department of Educational Sciences, Hakim Sabzevari University, Sabzevar, Iran.

The present study aims to examine the effectiveness of the combination of solution-focused therapy and narrative therapy in marital adjustment of incompatible women. This research is a pretest-posttest quasi-experimental study design with a nonequivalent control group. The statistical population comprises all the incompatible women who referred to the counseling clinics of Neyshabour in May 2016 (1500 admission per month). The research sample consists of 24 incompatible women who were selected through Randomand available sampling method. For data collection, Marital Adjustment Scale by Spinner was applied. The data were analyzed using the analysis of covariance test and with the aid of SPSS-22 software. The findings demonstrated that the combination of solution-focused therapy and narrative therapy is significantly effective in marital adjustment of incompatible women (P < 0.05). Thus, it can be stated that the combination of solution-focused therapy and narrative therapy can help to promote adjustment among incompatible women.

Solution-Focused Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Marital Adjustment, Incompatible Women

Shirashiani, A. and Namani, E. (2017) Effectiveness of the Combination of Solution-Focused Therapy and Narrative Therapy in Marital Adjustment among Incompatible Iranian Women. Open Journal of Psychiatry, 7, 79-89. doi: 10.4236/ojpsych.2017.72008.