The Effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Couple Therapy on Psychological Well Being, Marital Intimacy, and Life Quality of Chaotic Couples

Purpose: the aim of this study was to compare the efficacy of cognitive behavior couple therapy (cbct) and the approach of acceptance and commitment therapy (act) on psychological wellbeing, marriage intimacy and quality of life of chaotic couples. method: in order to achieve this goal, the quasi-experimental design including pretest and post-test with control group as the main method was used. findings: the population of this study included 14 couples who referred to counselling centers in tehran in 1394 due to chaotic problems in their marriage relationships. the purposive sampling was also used in this study. the instruments of this study included marital adjustment test, psychological well-being questionnaire by reef, intimacy scale by walker and thompson (1983) and quality of life. conclusion: the results showed that cognitive-behavioral couple therapy has been effective (p<0.000psychological well-being, marital intimacy, and couples quality of life.