the effectiveness of attachment therapy on marital affliction, family relationship, experience of spouse’s women

Background: the purpose of the current study was to examine the effectiveness of teaching attachment therapy on marital affliction, family relationship, experience of spouse’s women in esfahan city.method: it was semi- experimental study, with pre-test, post-test and control group. the experiment sample was 30 married women from esfahan that were non- randomly placed in control and experimental group (each group 15 women) while the control group was in waiting list, the experimental group was receiving training package in eight 90 minutes sessions. the measurements were marital affliction (pines, 1996), family relations (barons and olson, 2004), experience of spouses mother ( yousefi and pirozi, 1396). both groups were evaluated in pre-test, post- test. data was analyzed by descriptive statistic (means and standard deviations) and inferential statistic (multivariate analysis of covariance).result: the results showed the training is effective on family relation among married women but it is not effective on affliction and experience of spouse's mother.conclusion: as the results showed, the training is prepared method to improve family relations among married women.