The effect of parenting acceptance and commitment therapy on parenting style and parental psychological flexibility and social skills and locus of control of their children.

The effect of parenting acceptance and commitment on parenting styles and parental psychological flexibility and locus of control and social skills of their children

Of all the girls' elementary school of Khorramabad, a ten class school with 243 students is selected. After inviting the parents to cooperate, according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 40 students and their mothers are selected.Then these people are randomly assigned in two test groups (20 mothers, 20 children) and control group (20 mothers, 20 children).

The mothers of both groups fill out the parenting styles and psychological flexibility questionnaires and their children fill out locus of control and social skills questionnaires before the training sessions of the experimental group. After mothers in the training group will receive eight 1-2 hour weekly training sessions based on the Acceptance and Commitment Parenting Program protocol (Kevin & Marl, 2009). Mothers in the control group do not receive any training during this period. After eight sessions, the mentioned variables are measured in both groups.

inclusion criteria:for parents Being literate in reading and writing and for children Being 8 to 11 years old; not-inclusion criteria: Presence of psychiatric disorder in parent or child, Lack of informed consent to participate in the study

parenting acceptance and commitment therapy and control. In parenting acceptance and commitment therapy are trained the concepts such as parenting styles, parenting values, emotion management and behavior management, mindfulness in parenting, mindful reinforcement and working on relationships with children. In control group no intervention is done.

parenting styles, psychological flexibility, locus of control, social skills

In the first stage, in order to create a random sequence generation, due to the equality of the two experimental and control groups, the restricted randomization method will be chosen. In this method, using permuted block randomization method, equal blocks of 8 (including 4 participants or mothers in the experimental group and 4 participants or mothers in the control group) will be considered). In the second stage, in order to hide the allocation concealment, the method of using Sequentially, numbered, sealed, opaque envelopes (SNOSE) will be used in a random sequence. Based on the size of the study sample (40 people), 5 envelopes are prepared and each of the created random blocks is recorded on a card and the cards are placed in the envelopes in order. The lid of the letter envelopes is glued and placed inside a bigger box or envelope respectively. At the time of starting the registration of the participants, according to the order of entry of the participants conditions for the study, one of the letter envelopes was opened and the assigned group of that participant is revealed. It should be noted that the implementation of the random assignment process includes- the person who created the random sequence, the person who examined the participants in terms of the criteria for entering and exiting the study and enrolled them in the study, and the person who assigned the participants to groups- is a person except for the authors of the article and the executor of the treatment method in the experimental group.