فاطمه رضائی

The ineffectiveness of marital interactions, as a source of repeated conflict between couples, leads to unresolved issues in shared life. Therefore, various therapeutic approaches are used to reduce interactional ineffectiveness in couples, including Schema Therapy, which, like other cognitive therapies, is influenced by socio-cultural contexts, and its efficacy is affected by the societal framework, beliefs, and values. This study aimed to develop and validate an indigenous schema-based marital conflict resolution model and then determine the effectiveness of an interventional package derived from it on reducing marital interactional ineffectiveness. Using a mixed-methods approach with a sequential exploratory design, this research combined a qualitative grounded theory method with a quantitative single-case experimental design (AB or multiple direct observation) to provide a paradigm model of indigenous schema-based conflict resolution. For this purpose, a purposive sampling method was used to select married people with marital conflict who had referred to counseling centers in Tehran, as well as couple therapists working in these centers who use the schema therapy approach. Based on the principle of theoretical saturation, semi-structured interviews were conducted in two separate series: one with eight conflicting married people and another with nine couple therapists. After performing separate open, axial, and selective coding for the interviews with the conflicting people and the therapists, the results from these two series of interviews were integrated, and the paradigmatic model derived from the findings was illustrated. The findings of this research were able to present the causal conditions, contextual factors, intervening conditions, strategies, and outcomes of the strategies within a paradigmatic model. Based on the results, cultural challenges in relationships, content-related and process-related challenges, and challenges in technique implementation were the most critical central themes in reducing couples' interactional ineffectiveness according to the indigenous schema-based conflict resolution model. Subsequently, the intervention package based on the model was developed and validated using content validity index. In the quantitative part of the study, one couple with conflict and ineffective interactions participated in ۲۰ sessions of counseling based on the indigenous schema-based conflict resolution model. The results of repeated measurements using the Gottman Marital Interaction Stability Questionnaire and the Couples' Interactional Ineffectiveness Assessment Checklist indicated the effectiveness of the interventional package in reducing their interactional ineffectiveness.

Keywords: Counseling Model,Treatment package, Schema, Localization, Marital Interactional Inefficiency, Marital Conflict.