Introduction: One of distress and psychological anomalies, which decreases or fades the love and affection between couples over time, causes emotional and mental problems, and finally leads to emotional or formal divorces, is couple burnout. This study aimed to evaluate the efficiency of RELATIONSHIP ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM on reducing couple burnout. Methods: This study was of the quasi-experimental method with a pretest-posttest design with control group and follow-up. The population of the study consisted of all the married couples with marital problems who were referred to Hamyaran Salamat Ravan institute in Bojnurd city, Iran in spring and summer of 2014, and were ready to participate in the sessions. Based on purposeful and available sampling method, 20 couples who had received the highest scores in couple burnout based on inclusion and exclusion criteria for the study were considered eligible to participate in the sessions; they were assigned to intervention and control groups by random assignment (n = 1 per group). The assessment tool was couple burnout measure (CBM) of Pines (1996), which was completed by subjects in pretest, posttest and follow-up (one month) stages. The dependent variable (RELATIONSHIP ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM) was held in eight sessions of 1. 5 hours in groups with step-by-step method, with the sequence of one session per week for the intervention group. The control group received no intervention until the end of the experiment. The research data were analyzed through univariate covariance analysis in SPSS 18. Results: The results of the analysis suggested that, at posttest, the RELATIONSHIP ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM significantly reduced couple burnout in the experimental group, and the results were consistent enough up to the follow up stage. Conclusions: The results of this study indicated that the marital RELATIONSHIP ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM was effective in reducing couple burnout and this method of intervention can be used as an effective method for improving marital RELATIONSHIPs and for solving marital problems of clients in counseling centers and couple-therapy group sessions.

Introduction: One of distress and psychological anomalies, which decreases or fades the love and affection between couples over time, causes emotional and mental problems, and finally leads to emotional or formal divorces, is couple burnout. This study aimed to evaluate the efficiency of RELATIONSHIP ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM on reducing couple burnout. Methods: This study was of the quasi-experimental method with a pretest-posttest design with control group and follow-up. The population of the study consisted of all the married couples with marital problems who were referred to Hamyaran Salamat Ravan institute in Bojnurd city, Iran in spring and summer of 2014, and were ready to participate in the sessions. Based on purposeful and available sampling method, 20 couples who had received the highest scores in couple burnout based on inclusion and exclusion criteria for the study were considered eligible to participate in the sessions; they were assigned to intervention and control groups by random assignment (n = 1 per group). The assessment tool was couple burnout measure (CBM) of Pines (1996), which was completed by subjects in pretest, posttest and follow-up (one month) stages. The dependent variable (RELATIONSHIP ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM) was held in eight sessions of 1. 5 hours in groups with step-by-step method, with the sequence of one session per week for the intervention group. The control group received no intervention until the end of the experiment. The research data were analyzed through univariate covariance analysis in SPSS 18. Results: The results of the analysis suggested that, at posttest, the RELATIONSHIP ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM significantly reduced couple burnout in the experimental group, and the results were consistent enough up to the follow up stage. Conclusions: The results of this study indicated that the marital RELATIONSHIP ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM was effective in reducing couple burnout and this method of intervention can be used as an effective method for improving marital RELATIONSHIPs and for solving marital problems of clients in counseling centers and couple-therapy group sessions.

Background and aims: Quality of working life is a critical concept with great importance in the life of an employee which shows an appropriate balance between work and personal life, ensuring organizational productivity and employee’s job satisfaction. This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of RELATIONSHIP ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM on quality of work life (QWL) among Karaj Municipality staff.Methods: The sample of the study included 30 employees who were randomly selected from among the applicants to participate in this PROGRAM, and they were random assigned into experiment and control groups (15 subjects per group). The data collection tool was the 27-item Walton quality of work life questionnaire (1973), which was performed on both groups in the pre-test and post-test stages. RELATIONSHIP ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM was implemented in 7 sessions with 90 minutes duration with step by step method for the experiment group, while the control group did not receive any intervention. The Data were analyzed through Univariate and multivariate analysis of covariance by using the software SPSS 18.Results: The results suggested that there is a difference between experimental and control groups after performing the intervention. In other words, the use of RELATIONSHIP ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM has enhanced quality of life among the employees in the post-test (p<0.05).Conclusion: Quality of wok life is an important issue in the Workplace. Organizations can use training such as RELATIONSHIP ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM in order to improve this components and increase Organization productivity and employees’ satisfaction, as well.

Background & Aim: One of the most important factors that lead to maladjustment and conflict in marital life is RELATIONSHIP problem of couples, which is the result of lacking appropriate and necessary skills for establishing healthy and intimate RELATIONSHIPs. The present research was conducted by the aim of investigating the effect of RELATIONSHIP ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM on reducing marital conflicts of dual-career couples.Materials & Methods: The current study uses quasi-experimental method; where-in pretest-posttest design with control group has been used. The population of the present research comprised of all married women employed in the department of education of Shahryar city in 2013, who demanded to participate in the training sessions. By using available sampling method, 20 of the female teachers who showed highest levels of conflict with their spouses in marital conflicts questionnaire of Barati and Sanaei were selected and they were placed in two groups of control and experiment by random assignment method. The sessions of RELATIONSHIP ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM were held in 8 sessions in groups for the experiment group, but the control group did not receive any intervention. The data were analyzed through methods of descriptive statistics and multivariate covariance analysis in SPSS v.16 software.Results: The results showed that the training of RELATIONSHIP ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM (REP) has led to significant decrease in marital conflicts among the women of the experiment group in the posttest stage (F=13.92 & P<0.01), and it has led to significant decrease in all the components of this variable, as well; including reduction of cooperation, reduction of sexual RELATIONSHIP, increased emotional reactions, increase in drawing child’s support, increased personal RELATIONSHIP with relatives, reduction of family RELATIONSHIP with relatives of spouse and friends, and separating financial matters from each other.Conclusion: Findings of the present research suggested that RELATIONSHIP ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM has been effective in reducing marital conflicts among dual-career couples. It is recommended that future studies examine the effectiveness of marriage enrichment PROGRAM on marital variables.

Background: This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of the prevention and RELATIONSHIP ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM (PREP) on marital burnout in married women. Methods: Thirty married women were selected and randomly replaced in experimental (n=15) and control (n=15) groups. The quasiexperimental research method was conducted in the pretest-posttest control group design to examine the effectiveness of the PREP on marital burnout in married women. The sessions of the PREP were implemented for the experimental group during 8 sessions of 90 minutes, one session per week, and no educational intervention was performed for the control group. Multivariate analysis of covariance was used as a statistical method. Results: The results showed that there was a significant difference between the control and experimental groups in psychological and emotional aspects of marital burnout(Pvalue≤, 0. 02). Our results also showed that the total burnout score was significantly different from pre-test to post-test in the experimental group (Pvalue≤, 0. 01). Conclusions: It can be implied from the results of our study that PREP can have different implications in Iranian culture.

This study has been prepared to examine the effect of RELATIONSHIP ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM on Marital Satisfaction of dual-career couples. 24 couples participated in this study. At the first all of the couples were given pretest. Based on the pretest in global distress scale, the couples were separated in three groups randomly. 12 couples in control group and 12 couples in RE group. RELATIONSHIP ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM for R E group were done in 7 sessions. Control group received no education. Each of these two groups received post test of "MSI- R" at the end of PROGRAM. After a month from the end of the PROGRAM each of subjects answered the follow up test. Results showed that RELATIONSHIP ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM had increased marital satisfaction of the couples meaningfully (p<0/01). RELATIONSHIP ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM hade improved subscales of global distress, affective communication and problem solving communication meaningfully (p<0/01).

Background and aim: Intimacy in couples has beneficial effects on physical and psychological health. This study investigated the effectiveness of training RELATIONSHIP ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM on increasing intimacy in dual-career couples.Material and Method: This was a quasi-experimental study with pretest, posttest and control group. The research population included female elementary school teachers who had married for 5 to 10 years, in Sanandaj City. 30 women were selected randomly from eligible volunteers and were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The experimental group used the RELATIONSHIP ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM for ten 1.5 hour sessions (one session/week) while the control group did not do any training.Marital intimacy questionnaire was used as a measurement tool and the groups completed it three times in pretest, posttest and follow up test. Data were introduced in to SPSS software and analyzed by covariance analysis.Results: Our results showed that training RELATIONSHIP ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM led to increased intimacy and all intimacy subscales (emotional , intellectual, physical, social-recreational, relational, spritual, psychological, sexual and general) between dual-career couples significantly (p<0.05).Conclusion: The training RELATIONSHIP ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM can be used to increase intimacy in dual-career couples.