45 Health, Spirituality and Medical Ethics - Vol.6, No.2, Jun 2019 The Effectiveness of Spiritual-religious Psychotherapy on Love Trauma Syndrome and Acceptance in Female Students with Love Failure Received 22 Apr 2019; Accepted 23 May 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.29252/jhsme.6.2.45 Parisa Behdost 1 , Kimia Kargar 2 , Zeynab Ziaaddini 2 , Hadi Salimi 3* 1 Department of counseling, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran. 2 Department of Psychology, Bandar Abbas Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bandar Abbas, Iran. 3 Department of Counseling, Faculty of Literature and Humanities Sciences, Hormozgan University, Bandar Abbas, Iran. Introduction ove is among the highly attractive subjects that has engaged the human mind since the ancient eras. Despite the special definition proposed by different sciences, there is no consensus about love. However, love is considered as one of the primary psychological needs that people crave for (1). Although love could be one of the most wonderful and sweetest excitements of human, it might be known as the most painful tensions of people (2). Based on the evidence, love failure may lead to one of the most considerable psychological traumas in an individual (3). In this regard, Rosse posed the concept of love trauma syndrome defined as a set of intense signs and symptoms that occur following the deterioration of a romantic relationship. The syndrome disturbs individuals’ performance and causes harmful physical and psychological reactions that can persist for a long time (2). The breakup of a relationship can result in various issues, such as depression, anxiety, distress, pessimism, loss of focus, professional and educational L Abstract Background and Objectives: Love failure can cause intense emotional damage in a person. Therefore, it is necessary to identify and strengthen the factors that improve the experience of an individual with love failure. With this background in mind, the present study aimed to evaluate the effect of spiritual-religious psychotherapy on love trauma syndrome and acceptance of the problem in female students with love failure. Methods: This experimental pretest-posttest study was performed on 30 female undergraduate students with an experience of love failure in Bandar Abbas, Iran, in 2019, using a control group design. The study population was selected through snowball sampling method, and then assigned randomly into two groups of intervention and control. The participants of the intervention group received spiritual-religious psychotherapy, and the final analysis was performed on 27 subjects. Data collection tools entailed Love Trauma Inventory, in addition to Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II. All data were analyzed by multivariate analysis of variance using SPSS software (version 22). Results: The findings showed that spiritual-religious psychotherapy had a significant effect on love trauma syndrome (F=102.75, P<0.05) and love failure acceptance (F=161.79, P<0.05). Conclusion: According to the results of this study, spiritual-religious psychotherapy can be suggested as an effective approach in improving love trauma syndrome and love failure acceptance in girls. The findings of this study might have various practical implications. Keywords: Acceptance, Love, Religion, Spiritual therapy, Trauma. Original Article Health, Spirituality and Medical Ethics. 2019;6(2):45-51 Please Cite This Article As: Behdost P, Kargar K, Ziaaddini Z, Salimi H. The Effectiveness of Spiritual-religious Psychotherapy on Love Trauma Syndrome and Acceptance in Female Students with Love Failure. Health Spiritual Med Ethics. 2019;6(2):45-51. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International License *Correspondence: Should be addressed to Mr. Hadi Salimi. Email: hadisalimi69@yahoo.com