Effectiveness of Emotion-Focused Couple Therapy in Insecure Attachment Styles

Background: marital infidelity is an interpersonal trauma that can lead to cognitive, emotional, and behavioral symptoms in the affected person.objective: the goal of this study was to determine the effectiveness of emotion-focused couple therapy in insecure attachment styles in women and men affected by spousal infidelity.methods: this study was quasi-experimental research with pre-test, post-test and follow-up with control group. the statistical population of this study included all men and women who were referred to counseling centers in tehran in 2019-20 due to spousal infidelity. a total of 40 patients were randomly assigned to two groups: experimental and control, using a convenience sampling procedure. the intervention was not given to the control group. the control group did not receive the intervention. data were collected using an attachment styles questionnaire (hazen & shaver, 1987), and a multivariate covariance analysis test was used to eliminate the effect of pre-test using spss software.results: the results demonstrated that emotion-focused couple therapy affected the scores of insecure attachment styles (p<0.01). it was also revealed that the method of training was to enrich couples' relationships with an emotion-focused approach in the follow-up phase (p<0.01).conclusion: as evidenced by the results of this study, it can be stated that emotion-focused couple therapy is effective in women and men affected by spousal infidelity; therefore, it can be successfully used as a therapeutic or educational method in couple therapy programs.