The impact of family life education on parenting stress amelioration in mother of children with ADHD

Subject Areas : Educational Science

mohsen moshkbed ¹ , ali delavar ² , abdolah shafieabadi ³

1 - .دکتری مشاوره
2 - استاد دانشگاه علامه طباطبائی
3 - استاد دانشگاه علامه طباطبائی

Received: 2016-01-01 Accepted : 2016-01-01 Published : 2008-12-21

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Abstract :

many investigation have named parenthood as a stressful task , if young child has problemtic behavior or medical difficulties . They have also studied attention defict/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in young children and reported high stressful levels in their parents . Moreover they reported , it ideas to decrease parental stress by education . the present study  has been surveyed the effect of family life education (F.L.E) in decline of impact mothering stress with having hyperactivity children .  A pretest and posttest group design was chosen for the study and required doctor was gathered . 80 mothers from 183 having ADHD children , who come to Ehya counseling center and psychological services in Rasht from 85/1/1 to 86/4/1 and screened by psychiatrist were selected randomly in control and experimental group. All mothers aging 30-40,house keepers, educated from high school and up, having 1-2 children, were participated in this study. Their children with ADHD underwent drug therapy at the time of study. All mothers completed parental stress inventory (PSI) as dependent variable before and after independent variable (F.L.E).  In analyzing data parametric test like t-student was used in comparing two independent group (different averages and scores pre and post test).  The results have shown we can change the all characteristics related to children that cause to increase parental stress by the help of  F.L.E. we also change the attitude of the mothers about adaptability, demondingness, mood, distractibility increasing skills of mothers by programmer content for modifying and controlling of children and familiarizing mothers with the techniques of child raring and changing the perception of mothers on ADHD. Although we couldn’t decrease and depression of mothers as the parts of prod using parental stress by F.L.E programe, we could decrease feeling of the mothers about the negative sense of competence, restriction of role, social isolation, relationship with spouse, attachment and health the forth coming date of study by the use of counseling and psychotherapy of mothers in association with education, recognition the rate mothers information before performing educational plans, presences of father in F.L.E session, providing pamphlets, educational films and brochures on ADHD