Comparing the Effectiveness of Reality Therapy and Emotion-Focused Therapy on the Symptoms of Love Trauma in women with Love Failure

Aim: this research was conducted to compare the effectiveness of reality therapy and emotion-oriented therapy on the symptoms of love trauma in women with love failure. methods: this study was a quasi-experimental research using the pre-test-post-test plan with a follow-up test. the statistical population of the research was all the people who were referred to aramandish and chaman clinics in tehran in 2022, 45 people were selected as a statistical sample based on purposeful sampling. fifteen people were ingroup experiment 1 (reality therapy glaser, 1999), 15 people were in experiment 2 (emotion-focused therapy based on greenberg's theory, 2007) and 15 people were in the control group. the data collection tool was love trauma inventory (lti, rosse, 1999). the data were analyzed by split plot anova and one-way variance and the repeated measurements anovausing spss software. finding: the findings indicated that there was a significant difference between the pre-test, post-test, and follow-ups of the love trauma scores in the two groups of experiments 1, 2, and the control group. likewise, there was a significant difference between the pre-test, post-test and follow-up scores in these groups (p<0.001). but there was no significant difference between the post-test and follow-up scores (p=.073). results: the results also showed that there is no significant difference between the two groups of experiments 1 and 2 (reality therapy and emotion-oriented therapy). therefore, it can be concluded that both reality therapy and emotion-oriented interventions can be used for emotional failure syndromes.