effectiveness of emotion-focused therapy-based enrichment program on psychological well-being, marital relationship quality and marital satisfaction in mothers of children with specific learning disabilities

Background: since learning disability is a shortage in general educational skills and the mothers of children with such a defect should be aware of the skills to deal with incoming issues. objectives: present study aimed to investigate effectiveness of emotion -focused therapy-based enrichment program on psychological well-being, marital quality and marital satisfaction in mothers of children with specific learning disabilities. methods: this study was a semi-experimental work with pretest-posttest design and control group. the statistical population included mothers of children with specific learning disability referring to talas hclinic in district 1 of tehran in 2017-2018. 30 mothers of children with specific learning disability were chosen as samples and randomly were divided into 2 groups (control and experimental). initially, the pretest was conducted on the two groups. the experimental group was exposed to 8 sessions of emotion-focused therapybased enrichment program. then, post-test was carried out. for data collection, ryff’s psychological well-being scale, revised dyadic adjustment scale and marital satisfaction questionnaire were used. data analysis was conducted using mancova. results: statistical data analysis indicated positive effectiveness of the enrichment program on psychological well-being, and marital quality and satisfaction of experimental group compared to the controls (p<0/05). conclusion: the enrichment program can be an efficient way to increase psychological well-being, and marital quality and satisfaction among mothers of children with specific learning disability.