أثر برنامج ارشادي قائم على الاسلوب الجدلي السلوكي في تخفيض الكدرالزواجي لدى المتزوجات

Abstract

The current research aims to find out (the effect of a counseling program based on the behavioral dialectic method in reducing marital distress among married women). The current research is determined by the teachers of married women in Governorate of Diyala / Khalis District for the year (2024/2025) and their number amounted (1557). The literature and previous studies dealing with marital distress were reviewed. The results resulted in constructing the marital distress scale and the researcher adopted the definition of Guttman (1993), Gottman's definition of marital distress in order to build the paragraphs of the scale, which in its final version consisted of (32) items. The researcher designed for the purposes of the study a counseling program, based on the counseling method (behavioral dialectic) of (Borders & Dryra, 1992), which was applied to the experimental group in (10) sessions, two sessions of each week, the duration of the session (45) minutes, and the data were processed using a (SPSS) program and a number of statistical methods. The results showed that the counseling program in the dialectical behavioral method was effective in reducing marital distress among married women. In light of the research results, the researcher presented a set of recommendations and suggestions.