The effect of emotional focused therapy on parental self-efficiency and feeling of guilt in mothers of children with burn injuries

The aim of this study was to determine the effect of Emotion Focused Therapy on parental self-efficiency and feeling of guilt in mothers of children with burn injuries. The research method was quasi-experimental with a pretest-posttest design with a control group. The statistical population of the study included all mothers with children with burns referred to Tehran Trauma and Burn Hospital (Shahid Motahari) in the fall of 1398. Thirty of these mothers who had lower scores in the Parenting Self-Efficacy Questionnaire of Dumka et al. (1996) and Eisenhower Feelings (2007) were selected as the research sample and were randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups. The experimental group underwent Emotion Focused Therapy for 10 sessions per week (Greenberg, 1986). The results of univariate analysis of covariance showed that there was no significant difference between the experimental and control groups in the self-efficacy variable despite its increase in the experimental group. However, emotion-based treatment was significantly effective in reducing the guilt of mothers of children with burn injuries (P <0.05). The results of this study showed that emotion therapy can be used to reduce guilt and negative emotions of mothers with children with burn injuries.