Effectiveness of emotion focused therapy on the divorce desire of the referred couples divorce applicant to Family Court

The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the excitement centered on the divorce desire of the refered couples divorce applicant to family court. The sample of the research consisted of 30 couples divorce applicants (15 experimental and 15 control groups) who were selected by voluntary sampling and responded the research tool that were included the desire to divorce questionary of Rosbelt, Johnson and Morrow (1983). This Semi experimental research plan was pretest - posttest plan with group control. After experimental and groups control in random selection, at the beginning a pre-test was conducted for both groups and then test interventions (emotion-focused therapy) was lasted in 8 sessions that each session lasted 90 minutes, were conducted in test groups and after the therapy program ended, a pretest was tested from both groups. For data analysis the covariance analysis (MANCOVA) was used. The results of the analysis showed, emotion-focused therapy reduces the desire to divorce and the desire to get out and increases the tendency to negligence the experimental group divorce applicants compared with the control group. As a result, the emotion focused therapy is effective on reducing the desire of the divorce couples applicants applicant.