Background & Aim: Family is a fundamental structure in a society that its health causes health of society. Family education is an approach for acquiring to this aim. Due to this purpose the main purpose of this research was to study the effectiveness of Prevention of Divorce Training Package on marital satisfaction and emotional divorce on couples. Materials & Methods: The purpose of this research was developing of prevention of divorce training package and determination of its effectiveness on satisfaction and emotional divorce on employees of education organization of Urmia city. The method was qualitative - quantitative. Research environment of qualitative part was couples who were applicant for divorce. They were interviewed by Narrative inquiry and based on this interviews, the package was developed. In quantitative part of the research the population was employees of Urmia education organization (452person) and the method was quasi-experimental (pretest-posttest and control group) and the sample includes 60 married male and female (experimental group- 30 persons) (control group -30 persons) who was selected by convenience sampling method and assigned randomly in experimental and control groups. Dependent variables of the study were marital satisfaction and emotional divorce. Research instruments were afrooz marital satisfaction (2010) and gottman emotional divorce (1988) questionnaires which completed by both groups. Intervention was conducted on experimental group but control group received no intervention. After two month each groups followed again. The data were analyzed by using repeated measurement variance analyses in SPSS 24. Results: The results showed that training of the package could increase marital satisfaction and decrease emotional divorce in experimental group. However, there was no significant difference in the control group after the intervention (p>0/05). Conclusions: Based on research results, it was suggested for the Iranian family court, marriage and family counseling centers and family training centers to implement this package in their training program.  

Keywords: Prevention of Divorce Training Package, emotional divorce, marital satisfaction

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