Effect of spiritual family therapy on marital satisfaction in couples with husbands' drug-dependent

Abstract

Addiction and Problematic drug use, led to the physical, psychological, social and family destruction especially clinically significant or serious discomfort. This study aimed to efficacy of spiritual therapy based on family-centered on marriage satisfaction in couples with husbands' drug-dependent. This design was a quasi-experimental. The population consisted all drug-dependent and their wives in Quchan (prisoners and patients referred to the clinics withdrawal). 40 couples volunteered to participate in this study and were placed randomly in the experimental group (20 couples) and control group (20 couples). Participants reply to afrooz marital satisfaction scale. Couples in experimental group received 10 sessions of 90 minutes spiritual Family therapy and the control group received no intervention. Analysis of covariance showed that the differences between pretest and posttest of marital satisfaction in experimental group and all its sub-tests that increased significantly in the experimental group, while no significant changes in control groups. Also there were significant differences in marital between the experimental group and the control group. So spiritual therapy based on family-centered on marital satisfaction of couples were effective. Spiritual therapy based on family-centered could improve their marital satisfaction Couples with husbands' drug-dependent and effected on increasing of marital satisfaction of couples involved in addiction that shows abnormal patterns of family relationships. The results can be the aimed to family-based treatment and harm reduction interventions at preventing relapse and reduce craving in substance abusers and can be used reexamining it.

Exploring the Relationship between Spiritual Well-Being and Marital Satisfaction among Urban Malays in Malaysia

“…Married individuals with high spiritual well-being tend to have higher satisfaction in marriage compared to those with low spiritual well-being. The findings of this study are in line with previous studies in this area (Aman, Abbas, Nurunnabi & Bano, 2019;Kasapoğlu, &Yabanigül, 2018 andHernandez-Kane, &Mahoney, 2018;Khurana & Joshi, 2017;Beyranvand, Azizi, &Dehghan Manshadi, 2016 andKhakpour, Mehrafarid, Akbari Amarghan, Nejat, Fazayeli Yousefabad, &Toroghi, 2018).…”

Spiritually-Oriented Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapy

“…Since Spiritually-Oriented Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapy has only recently been included among the categories of family therapy types in Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapy, there are only a limited number of studies in the literature on it. Even if few in number, Khodayarifard and McClenon (2011), Khakpour et al (2018), Smith and Smith (2004), Prest and Robinson (2006), and Khodayarifard and Fatemi (2013) have conducted diverse studies on spiritually-oriented CBFT.…”

“…Summary, conclusions reached, and program evaluation with both partners (e.g., opinions of the program, strong and weak points). Khakpour et al (2018) found that after 10 sessions of CBT-based spiritual family therapy with couples, both partners' marriage satisfaction, positive thoughts, problem-solving skills, personal behaviors, emotions, and religious orientations significantly improved.…”

“…Building off of this, clients can be encouraged to restructure their cognitions (Rosmarin, 2018). An example of spiritual-cognitive restructuring in spiritually-oriented CBFT would be to use Islamic teachings from the Qur'an and sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad to exchange irrational and illogical assessments underlying a Muslim client's thoughts and beliefs with rational ones while also keeping in mind the cognitive differences between men and women, (Khakpour et al, 2018).…”

“…Conducting a study with individuals whose spouse was addicted to one or more narcotic substances, Khakpour et al (2018) examined the effects of family therapy on marriage satisfaction. To this end, they designed a program following a CBT model composed of ten spiritual family therapy sessions.…”