A comparison in the effectiveness of the Olson Circumplex Model and the Walsh Integrated Approach on couples’ resilience and conflicts

Introduction: the present study was conducted aiming to compare the effectiveness of olson circumplex model and walsh integrated approach on the couple’s resiliency and conflict.method: in the experimental method, 30 couples owning the qualifications cited by the researcher and those who referred to the counseling offices in zone 3 of tehran in 2014 because of marital conflicts were selected through random sampling and were randomly put into experimental and control groups (two experimental and one control group). both experimental groups were put under the effect of independent variables (i.e., olson model and walsh approach) during eight nineteen-to- a hundred twenty minute sessions. the applied instruments were resilience scale (cd-risc) and marital conflicts questionnaire (mcq). finally, the collected data were analyzed via manova method.results: results taken from the data analysis implied that there is a significant difference between the mean scores of the experimental and control groups in the variables of marital resilience and conflicts compared to the control group (p<0.05). no significant difference was observed in the resilience variable when investigating the comparison of the degree of effectiveness of the two approaches (p>0.05). however, there was a significant difference between two groups in the variable of marital conflicts and the means and it showed that olson circumplex model enjoyed a higher effectiveness in reducing the couples’ marital conflicts than the walsh integrated approach.conclusion: according to the findings of the study, olson circumplex and walsh integrated approach can be applied to decrease the couples’ marital conflicts.