The effectiveness of emotion-focused group therapy on interpersonal forgiveness and hope in divorced women

Abstract

This research studied the efficacy of emotion-focused group therapy in interpersonal forgiveness and hope in divorced women. The present study, a quasi-experimental with pretest-posttest design with a control group is unequal. The study population consisted of all women (women) under 40 years old are divorced that in June 2015 two regional counseling centers in Mashhad is visited. Sampling method was purposeful and voluntary. at first, the divorced women referred to counseling centers in Mashhad Region 2, 30 divorced women were selected purposefully and voluntarily and then randomly divided into 2 experimental groups (n = 15) and control group (n = 15) were divided. the research instrument was questionnaire of interpersonal forgiveness (IFI-25) and hopes (Schneider). both groups were given pre-test and then emotional group therapy for experimental group was accomplished in 10 weekly 90-minute sessions. after the end meetings, from both experimental and control groups post-test was taken. data was analyzed using Manova. there was significant difference between level of interpersonal forgiveness in both experimental and control groups. It means that emotion-focused group therapy on interpersonal forgiveness and hope in divorced women was affective (p<0.001). according to the results of treatment can be said that emotion focused group therapy increases the level interpersonal forgiveness and level hope in divorced women.

Keywords

• keywords: emotion-focused group therapy
• interpersonal forgiveness
• hope