Effectiveness of Compassion-Focused Therapy on Reducing Mother's Anger and their Children's Behavioral Problems

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1 M. A. in general psychology, Feizoleslam Non-Governmental Non - Profit Institute of Higher Education, Khomeinishahr, Iran.

2 Assistant professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Feizoleslam Non-Governmental Non - Profit Institute of Higher Education, Khomeinishahr, Iran.

Abstract

Objective:  The present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of compassion-focused therapy on reducing mother's anger and their children's behavioral problems.
Methods: The present study was a single subject study with ABA design. In this design, after the subjects reached the baseline position, the intervention was performed individually for 8 one-hour sessions and two weeks after the end of the intervention, follow-up tests were performed again. The sample of this study included 3 mothers with children with behavioral problems who were selected by purposeful sampling method. The Conner's Parents rating scale and a researcher-made checklist of mothers' anger were used to collect data. Data were analyzed using visual analysis of graphs, trending, stability, PND, POD and MPI indices.
Results: The results showed that the intervention for two subjects reduced mother's anger (46.67 and 100% recovery rate) and children's behavioral problems (44.18 and 54.88% recovery rate) has been effective; However, this treatment was not effective in reducing mother's anger and behavioral problems in one of the subjects.
Conclusion:  In general, these results show that compassion-focused interventions reduce maternal anger and thus improve the mother-child relationship, and this will improve the child's behavioral problems.

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