Table 1:
Educational-psychological sessions
| Content | Therapeutic model used | Session |
|---|---|---|
| Framing sessions, articulating goals, identifying key problems, reaching a single definition of the problem | - | First |
| Increasing sexual self-esteem through cognitive correction, activating behavior, communicating with sexual organs, activating positive feedback from the spouse | Cognitive-behavioral-communication enrichment | Second |
| Challenging mythical sexual thoughts and beliefs, expressing core emotions, combating negative sexual spontaneous thoughts and sexual cognitive distortion (mind reading), self-acceptance, homework | Cognitive-behavioral-emotion-focused communication enrichment | Third |
| Increasing their level of differentiation in marital relationships, reducing insecure attachment by achieving unrecognized feelings that underlie interactive situations. | emotion-focused therapy and Bowen intergenerational family therapy | Fourth |
| Attracting couples' attention to the way they interact with each other and reflecting their interaction patterns, expressing attachment needs and identifying denied needs, facilitating the expression of needs and wants and creating emotional conflict, developing early emotional experiences in attachment and recognizing inner needs and relationships, Creating new attachments with a secure bond between spouses. Awareness of couples about the impact of fear and their defense mechanisms on cognitive and emotional processes. | emotion-focused therapy and insight focused therapy | Fifth |
| Strengthening the gender role and sexual identity of the couple, awareness about triangulation with children and work by each couple and trying to de-triangle, enrich the relationship, change the defective structure of the family, homework | Structural therapy and enrichment of communication | Sixth |
| Increased sexual intimacy (jokes, daily sexual conversation, activating non-verbal sexual behavior, quality of physical contact, sexual emotions, reminiscent behaviors), homework | Enriching sexual relationship | Seventh |
| Strengthening verbal and non-verbal communication, eliminating problematic verbal and non-verbal communication, awareness of the role of expectations growth, their role and meeting expectations and needs in sexual-marital satisfaction, providing homework | Enriching sexual relationship | Eighth |
| Increasing work-family balance through Clarifying goals, values and expectations of a role in the job, family and children, communication skills training. Establishing a fair relationship (balance between individual, marital, family needs and a fair relationship between husband and wife) and balance at work and family. Negotiation, contracting and problem solving, increasing support and understanding of the spouse and awareness of the role of spouse support in job-marital adjustment | Communication enrichment and conflict management | Ninth |
| Conflict management training, bringing couples closer to a financial position based on division of labor or financial partnership | Communication enrichment and conflict management | Tenth |