تاثير مشاوره شناختي - رفتاري بر اساس رويكرد زيرسيستم هاي شناختي متعامل بر تغيير نگرش زوج هاي نابارور

Studying the effect of cognitive - behavioral counseling, based on Interacting Cognitive Subsystems approach on attitude towards infertility of infertile couples

The purpose of this study was [0 examine the effect of cognitive-behavioral counselling based on Interacting Cognitive Subsystems (leS) approach on changing attitude towards infertility of infertile couples. This research is semi experimental and pretcst-posuest with control group. The sample includes 30 infertile couples that "ere selected from infertile couples who referred to the Fertility and Infertility Center in Isfahan province. They were grouped randomly into experimental and control group. Both groups were assessed at two stages. pre test and posttcst, using Attitude towards infertility Inventory. The experimental bʹTOUP received six sessions of counseling based on ICS approach. This study showed that counseling based on ICS approach changed the infertile couplesʹ attitude towards infertility positively and its effect was regardless of gender. According to the findings, cognitive behavioral counseling based on ICS approach was found effective on changing the infertile couplesʹ attitude towards infertility and may should consider it to be offered together with biological therapies for infertility.