The effects of emotional focused therapy on increasing the marriage suitability of barren couples

Introduction: The present research aims at investigating the effects of emotional focused therapy on increasing the adjustment of infertile couple.Method: The present research was a quasi-experimental study. The samples included 12 couples, (6 couples in which husband was infertile, and 6 couples in which wife was infertile). Infertility was diagnosed by a gynecologist and maladjustment was diagnosed by Spanir Marriage Suitability Test. They were assigned to control and experiment groups. Six couples (3 couples in which husband was infertile and 3 couples in which wife was infertile) received emotional focused therapy couple therapy and the other 6 couples waited for treatment (as the control group).Result: Emotional focused therapy meaningfully increased marriage adjustment, twosome settlement, love expression, marriage consent, and twosome consistency.Conclusions: The emotional focused therapy increases infertile couple’s marriage suitability.