The Effectiveness of the Group Positive Parenting Training Program on Behavior Problems of Child and Anhedonia of the Mothers of Educable Mental Retarded Children

Birth and presence of a child with intellectual disabilities in every family It can be a challenging adverse events Probably will follow stress and frustration and feelings of sadness and despair. The present study was conducted with the aim of determining the effectiveness of the group positive parenting training program on the anhedonia of mothers and behavioral problems of educable mentally retarded children. The research design was a pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design with the control group and 1 month follow up. For this purpose, from among mothers of educable mentally retarded children who referred to educational centers in the Isfahan city in the autumn 2016, 30 participants were selected using convenience sampling method and then were randomly assigned into two experimental and control groups (in each n=15).  Participates responded the anhedonia scale and the test of self-report based on Akhenbakh system (ASEBA). The group positive parenting training program was conducted during 8 sessions in group and for two months on the experimental group. The control group did not receive any intervention. The results of repeated measure indicated that the group positive parenting training program is effective on external behavior problems of chid and two components of anhedonia (social interaction, drink and food) of their mathers. Regarding the obtained results, it disabled to reduce external behavioral problems in children with intellectual disability and improve psychological state of their mothers can benefit from this method.