Investigating parental behavioral management intervention based on the Guttman protocol on reducing parental stress and aggression

The present study aimed to investigate the efficiency of parent behavior management intervention based on Gottman's intervention in reducing parental stress and children's aggression, through a virtual (online) education system, In 1400 in Bushehr. 

In this research, which is a quasi-experimental type, through targeted sampling and based on inclusion and exclusion criteria, 31 mothers were randomly divided into two groups, i.e., intervention and the waiting list. Then they were evaluated by the Parental Stress Questionnaire and Achenbach scale. The validity of the therapy program was confirmed through the content validity index (CVI = 0.94). The intervention was formulated in eleven 90-minute sessions.

Variance analysis, repeated measures, and post hoc tests were used to analyze the quantitative data. The findings showed the efficiency of parent behavior management intervention based on parent emotional intelligence coaching in reducing parental stress (p= 0.03, f=5.03). Children's aggression (p= 0.03, f=5.55) through a virtual (online) education system compared to the waiting list group in both the pretest and post-test stages, and in addition to alleviated parental stress, children's aggression was also generally reduced.

The findings of this study emphasize the effect of online parent management training intervention based on the Guttman protocol in reducing parental stress and children's aggression, Therefore, it is suggested that therapists use online parent management training intervention as a useful method.