Journal of Counseling Research

Marital adjustment and cohesion are concepts which their absence can result in marital conflicts and problems. Thus, the research is trying to compare two approaches which have holistic and reductionist viewpoints in treating couples’ maladjustment and cohesion. So, 24 couples (48 persons) were selected randomly and were divided in 3 groups (16 persons, each group consists of 8 men and 8 women). randomly, a group assigned for Systems-Centerd Therapy, another for Psycho-Educational Therapy, and the last as control group. after conducting 12 sessions of Systems-Centered Therapy, and 10 sessions Psycho-Education Therapy, groups were compared about marital adjustment and marital cohesion. results showed that these two approaches have no significant difference in treating marital adjustment and marital cohesion. .