Comparing the effectiveness of filial therapy and attachment-based play therapy on parenting burnout in mothers with children with symptoms of destructive mood disorder

Injurious mood disorder is a type of mood disorder that causes serious psychological and physical harm to children and their parents, which requires intervention and attention. Therefore, the research was conducted with the aim of comparing the effectiveness of filial therapy and attachment-based play therapy on parenting exhaustion of mothers with children with symptoms of destructive mood disorder.

It was a semi-experimental study with a pre-test-post-test design and follow-up with the control group. A number of 45 mothers with children with symptoms of self-inflicted mood disorder were selected from the counseling centers of Isfahan city by purposive sampling method and randomly assigned to two experimental groups and a control group. The experimental group received one filial-therapy intervention and the experimental group received two attachment-oriented game therapy, and the control group did not receive any intervention. The research tools included the questionnaire of destructive mood disorder and parenting burnout. The data were analyzed through analysis of variance with repeated measurements.

The results showed that both filial-therapy and attachment-based play therapy interventions on the dimensions of mothers' parenting burnout in the post-test and follow-up stage had a significant difference with the control group (P<0.001). However, there was no significant difference between the intervention of philiatherapy and attachment attachment in the post-test and follow-up stages on the dimensions of parenting burnout (P<0.001).

filial therapy and attachment-based play therapy interventions can reduce parenting burnout in mothers with children with symptoms of abusive mood disorder