بررسي اثر بخشي خانواده درماني ساختاري در بهبود عملكرد خانواده و تقويت رضايت زناشويي در خانواده هاي كودكان مبتلا به اختلال اضطراب جدايي

The Effect of the Structural Family Therapy to Increase Marital Satis Faction and family Performance of Children with Seperation Anxiety

The main aim of the present research is to investigate the effect of the structural family therapy approach (according to Minuchin theory) to increase marital satisfaction and recovery of family performance with at least one child who suffer from the separation anxiety disorder (SAD) who participated in this study. All families were randomly divided m two main groups including experimental and control groups. According to the level of the family education experimental and control groups were divided in two subgroups including high educated and low educated families. A battery of the instruments which consist from Enrich Satisfaction Test and Family Performance Inventory (Mousavi et al. 2005) were used in pre, post and follow up stages across 4 sub-groups. Two experimental sub-groups were received 10 sessions of the family intervention program, while control group were on the waiting list. SPSS and LISREL programs were used to analyze the data to get the descriptive statistics, analysis of repeated measures and Post hoc to compare the means. The results showed 110 significant difference between two subgroups i.e. high educated and low educated sub-groups. The results also indicated a significant difference between two groups 011 the Enrich Family Satisfaction Test and Family Performance which means that the experimental group performed better than control group (p< 0.001). Significant diffcrcnce was not found between two experimental sub-groups (i.e. high educated and low educated families). Therefore, this is distinguished that the structural family therapy approach is effective on increasing of marital satisfaction and recovery of family performance in mentioned families.