Introduction: One of the areas where women who suffer from contracting a spouse need help in their own health is to strengthen the ability of interpersonal forgiveness. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of “Forgiveness Based Mindfulness Therapy” and “Emotionally Focused Therapy” on forgiveness of women who damaged by their husbands' infidelity.
Methods: The research method was semi-experimental and three groups of two stages (pre-test and post-test). The statistical population of the study was women who damaged by husbands’ Infidelity Isfahan, among whom 45 were selected on purpose basis based on entry criteria and randomly assigned to two groups (15 subjects per group) and control group (n = 15).“Forgiveness Scale” (FS) was used to measure the variables of the research in the pretest and posttest phases. The group “Forgiveness Based Mindfulness Therapy “received 11 sessions and the “Emotionally Focused Therapy”received9 sessions of treatment and control group received no treatment. The data were analyzed with SPSS. 20.
Results: Forgiveness and its two components (lack of negative emotions and positive emotions) were significantly different between the experimental and control groups in the post-test (P<0.01).But there was no significant difference between the two groups, of treatments.
Conclusions: “Forgiveness Based Mindfulness Therapy" and “Emotionally Focused Therapy “are successful ways to promote forgiveness for women suffered by husbands’ infidelity. Therefore, it is recommended that these two treatments be used to increase forgiveness and eliminate psychological problems in this group of women.