Rooyesh-e- Ravanshenasi Journal(RRJ)

Abstract

 Divorce and its effects on the family system in recent years increasingly been the focus of psychological research, in line to the researches, this research was done to evaluate effectiveness of metacognitive therapy on maladaptive schemas among divorced women. The method of research was quasi- experimental design, with pretest-posttest and control group. For sampling 30 women who referred to counselling centers in Ardabil city were selected and assigned randomly in two groups (each them 15 people). In pretest we presented YSQ-SF questionnaire and after we performed protocol of metacognitive therapy in 8 session on experiment group and finally posttest was done on two groups. We used of covariance analysis methods for analyzing data. The results of research showed that there is significantly different between control and experiment groups. It could be explained that metacognitive therapy effects on maladaptive schemas among divorced women and it also can enhance mental health in this crust of society.