Evaluation of the effectiveness of parental behavioral management intervention based on parental emotional intelligence coaching (Guttman) on reducing parental stress and children's aggression through a virtual education system in times of COVID-19

The main purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of the parents behavioral management intervention, on the level of parental stress and their children aggression.

In this study the clinical trial having a control group randomly selected, was on 30 parents with parental stress and, for randomizing, sealed envelopes were used.

Treatment group was intervened by a clinical psychologist.The intervention and education of the parents were done through the virtual system(lms) of Payame Noor University. The intervention will be a combination of parental behavioral management training sessions (Kazdin, 2005) and parental emotional intelligence coaching training sessions (Guttman, 1997),The intervention is designed as a group in 12 sessions of two hours.

The inclusion criterion, in the study, was 18 to 45 - year - old parents with 3 to 12 - year - old children, referring to Payame Noor University Counseling Center who were worried and stressed about their children. The exclusion criterion, in the study, was those parents who themselves or their children were taking psychiatric drugs; or, simultaneously, were under psychological treatments.

In this intervention, the children behavioral management method, based on Kazdin(2005) intervention protocol, and children emotional intelligence coaching methods, based on Guttman(1997) training protocol, were taught to the parents of the intervention in 12 sessions. Before implementing the intervention, questionnaires of parental stress and cbcl were completed by the parents in both intervention and control groups, then, one week later, and after that, one month later, the questionnaires were completed by them again.

At the end of intervention , parents will be informed about positive parenting

The sample will be selected from the members of the statistical community using purposive non- random sampling method (based on parental stress rates) and then will be placed in an intervention group and a comparison group based on random allocation method (simple randomization). It is an individual randomization unit. In order to randomize, the random chain construction method will be utilized. For this purpose, the Excel software (intervention group “I” and comparison group “C”) is used and people sequentially enter the list produced by the software and are assigned to either of the groups.