Journal of Counseling Research

Background: Emotional divorce is considered as the most important factor in the rupture of the most fundamental structure of society, namely the family. This study aimed to investigate the role of cognitive avoidance components and metacognitive belief in the prediction of Spouses emotional divorce. Methods: The study statistical population consisted of all Spouses in Ardabil city in 2015. 120 people (60 married Spouses) were selected as the statistical sample using the convenience sampling. Data were collected through cognitive avoidance scale (Dugas & Sextons, 2004), MCQ-30 metacognitive belief scale (wells & Cartwright-Hatton, 2004), and Gutman's emotional divorce scale (2008). Research data were analyzed by Independent t test, Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression methods. Findings: The study results showed there is not meaningful difference among emotional divorce of men and women (p<0.05). Also, that a significant positive relationship exists between cognitive avoidance components and Spouses emotional divorce (p<0.05). In addition, a significant negative relationship existed between metacognitive belief and Spouses emotional divorce (p<0.05). Beta coefficients for predictor variables indicated that thoughts repression (15%), thoughts succession (13%), distractions (16%), changing image to thought (40%), and metacognitive belief (-14%) have significantly predictive capability of Spouses emotional divorce (p<0.05). Conclusion: Thus, it can be concluded that cognitive avoidance components and metacognitive belief are considered as the variables related to Spouses emotional divorce and have predictive capability of it.

Purpose: The purpose of  this research was to analyze the effectiveness of intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP) on correcting irrational beliefs and reducing cognitive avoidance of people with obsessive compulsive disorder. Methods: This research was performed using the semi-experimental method by using pretest/ posttest and a control group. Among all  the people who referred to the counseling centers in city ofShahrekord in 2015, thirty two people were selected in the form of voluntary purposive sampling. and through an interview, before  randomly being assigned into two experimental and control groups. Obsessive compulsive questionnaire of  Yile -Brown (T-Bocs), Jones irrational belief test (IBT), and Sexton and Dugas cognitive avoidance questionnaire (CAQ) were used in the pretest and posttest for collecting information, and data were analyzed using the descriptive indicators and covariance analysis test. The intervention of intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy in the experimental group was performed twice a week in 20 sixty minute sessions, but the control group did not receive any interventions. Results: The results of covariance analysis on the scores of pre-treatment, treatment, and followup whowed that after adjusting the pre-test scores between  the experiment and control groups for the variables of irrational beliefs (P<0.01) and cognitive avoidance (P<0.05), a meaningful difference was seen. Conclusion: Based on the results of this research, it is concluded that the intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy is a convenient method for correcting irrational beliefs and reducing cognitive avoidance of people with obsessive compulsive disorder.