The Effect of Educational Empowerment Divorced Mothers on Emotional-Behavioral Problems in Girls 7 to 10 years

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of teaching and educational empowerment divorced mothers on emotional problems behavioral girls aged 7 to 10. The study is quasi-experimental with pretest-posttest and one month follow up with the control group. The population of this study included girls 7 to 10 years old Tehran fatherless West primary school were enrolled in the academic year 94-95.the confidentiality of information and attendance at meetings of 20 mothers of these students as subjects randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The assessment tool Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (Goodman, 1997). The experimental group received 8 sessions (each session 90 minutes) intervention. Data from the statistical model repeated measures were analyzed using Spss-21 software. The results showed that total maternal educational empowerment training on reducing emotional problems (depression and anxiety) and behavioral problems (conduct disorder, hyperactivity and problems with peers) in girls 7 to 10 years old has been on the post-test and follow (P≤0/01). It is also the result of improvements in the children's altruism in step post-test and follow-up was effective (P≤0/01).