Evaluating the effectiveness of teaching life-skills on self-efficacy and increase of happiness in female high school students

The pourpose of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of teaching healthy family model to mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder in city of Qom, on their resiliency.
Quasi-experimental design was adopted in which pre-test, post-test, and control group were deployed. The study population included all mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder in city of Qom who had referred to city’s autism centers in 2016. The sample size consisted of 30 volunteers who were randomly placed in treatment and control groups (15 participants in each group). All of the participants completed resiliency questionnaire as pre-test and post-test. The treatment group received 10 educational sessions of healthy family model, while the control group received no intervention. ANCOVA was used for data analysi.
The This study showed that instruction of healthy family model had a meaningful and positive effect on the level of resiliency (P According to the results of the study, it can be concluded that teaching of healthy family model is an appropriate intervention for improving the resiliency of mothers with children who have autism spectrum disorder.