The main purpose of this research was the effect of couple psychotherapy on quality of life recovery in traumatic couple of infidelity. This was a one-group pre-experimental research with pre-test and post-test. We selected 10 couples affected by infidelity. They attended individual psychotherapy sessions, after initial interview. There were two questionnaires consisting of a questionnaire of evaluation of infidelity Vaughan which was translated by the researchers. The second one was a quality of life questionnaire with 20 questions and 4 subscales. Reliability of the latter questionnaire was 0.78. To analyze the data, we applied descriptive and analytic statistics. Our results showed a significant difference between the respondents quality of life's before and after the intervention (P<0.001). It seems the psychotherapy sessions may improve the quality of life of the couples affected by marital infidelity.

Keywords: Couples psychotherapy, Infidelity, Quality of life

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