Family Psychology Association of Iran

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Abstract: Intimacy and forgiveness are the most important components of a healthy marriage. Forgiveness is an intrapersonal process that can increase intimacy between couples. The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of an acceptance and commitment based couple therapy on intimacy and forgiveness. A non-congruent multiple baseline experimental single case study was used as the method of the present study.4 couples (8 individuals) were chosen according to the result of   Walker and Thompson intimacy scale (IS) and Family Forgiveness Scale (FFS). The couples participated in a 10 session, 90-minute program. The results showed that the couple therapy based on acceptance and commitment could increase intimacy and forgiveness among the couples by using cognitive flexibility.

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