Efficacy of Teaching New Parenting Strategies based on Problem Solving Approach

The objective of the present study is to evaluate the workshops for teaching new parenting styles based on problem solving approach. One of the advantages of these workshops is the fact that parents along with their children participate in various activities and are encouraged to ponder upon issues. Each session consists of a lesson plan presenting parents with a challenging situation and they have to seek a proper solution. In this study, 45 parents (33 Mothers and 12 fathers) were trained. Each workshop comprised of 9 sessions of one hour and 45 minutes each. The present study is a semi-empirical research with pre and post-testing without control group. The effectiveness of this study was measured by comparing the results of Robinson questionnaire on parenting and the custom-made questionnaire of behavioural problems for children, before and after the workshops. Results showed that these workshops were significantly effective on parenting styles, and insignificantly reduced children's behavioural problems. At the end, the application of such findings and suggestions for further research are discussed.