The study of effectiveness of parental skills training on decreasing maternal stress

The objective of this research was to investigate the effect of parental skills training on decreasing maternal stress. So، 250 individuals were selected randomly among mothers whom their children were studying in an elementary school. They completed the parenting stress Index (PSI، Abidin، 1990)، then 80 over stressed mother’s were selected among them and ultimately 38 mothers assigned randomly in two groups as experimental and control groups. After sessions training، pre- mentioned test were applied on Mothers in both group. Using depended T test to compare two groups، revealed that parental skills training can decrease maternal stress significantly (P< %5).