Research Paper The International Journal of Indian Psychology ISSN 2348-5396 (Online) | ISSN: 2349-3429 (Print) Volume 9, Issue 1, January- March, 2021 DIP: 18.01.021/20210901, DOI: 10.25215/0901.021 http://www.ijip.in © 2021, Anwar Z. & Januar R.; licensee IJIP. This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Solution-focused therapy to improve husband and wife communication patterns Zainul Anwar 1 *, Riski Januar 2 ABSTRACT Communication between husband and wife is one of the keys to successful family life; thus, it is necessary to handle it carefully, especially when the communication pattern appears unhealthy. Starting from the husband, who often changed his decisions without communicating it to his wife, it caused deep disappointment. This disappointment caused the wife to be more emotional and angry more often, while at the same time, the husband also continued to feel cornered by the unwanted situation. Regarding this phenomenon, the current study applied an intervention called Solution-Focused Therapy. The results of the intervention showed that there was an improvement in the communication patterns between the husband and the wife. It can be seen from the wife who tried to improve the way she communicated with her husband using soft tones, while the husband also tried not to make the same mistakes. Keywords: Solution-Focused Therapy, Communication Pattern, Family, Husband And Wife family is a group of individuals bound through marriage or birth, which aims to maintain the culture, create and improve physical, mental, and emotional development in which they interact and communicate with each other (Afiatin, 2018). The relationship between a man and a woman in a marriage is the highest form of relationship, which involves physical, emotional, spiritual, and social aspects of life (Khurana, 2017). Some individuals use marriage as the standard of one's prosperity through the attachment between a man and a woman (Dolbik-Vorobei, 2011). A happy marriage could affect individuals' psychological and physical health (Zimmermann, De Zwaan, & Heinrichs, 2019). Romantic relationships, especially among adults, are categorized as the most significant social interactions. The positive and negative characteristics of a relationship can affect the well-being of individuals and partners in particular. In contrast, the quality of the unwanted relationships, such as a conflict, has negatively affected the well- being outcomes in domestic life, such as increased depression symptoms and poor physical health outcomes (Roberson, Norona, Lenger, & Olmstead, 2018). 1 Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang 2 Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang *Responding Author Received: December 01, 2020; Revision Received: February 10, 2021; Accepted: March 03, 2021 A