| Summary: | 碩士 === 中國文化大學 === 教育心理與輔導研究所 === 91 === An outcome study of the Solution-Focus Oriented Parent Education Program
Abstract
The purpose of this stud
y was to develop a solution-focus oriented parenting education program and to study its effectiveness. The study attempted to answer the following questions: whether the solution-focus oriented parent education program was able to change the mothers’ parenting attitude, pattern of parenting skill , as well as the target children behavior.
The nonequivalent group design was applied to conduct the study. All subjects were measured before, during, immediate and four weeks after parent education program was completed. The four measuring instruments created specifically for this study are as the following: Parent attitude scale, Parent skill scale, Target child’s behavioral rating scale, and Maternal child-rearing practice scale. Nine scores were generated for each subject based from this four scales.
The subjects were the mother who voluntarily signed up for the parent education programs sponsored by the “ Teacher Chang” of Taipei Counseling Center. There are 20 mothers of children aged 10 to 12 participated in this study. They were assigned to two parent groups. The first group of 10 subjects was the experimental group and the second group of another 10 subjects was the control group and they did not start the parent education program until the end of the study. The weekly six sessions solution-focus oriented parent education program was used as the experimental stimulus. T test for independent samples was applied to the collected data. Statistic difference were tested between the two groups and among the various phases of program.
Results of the study were summarized in the following:
1. The solution-focus oriented parent education program has positive effect on the subjects’ parenting attitude. Specifically, the experimental group showed significant higher scores on the following variables than the control group: providing positive feedback, small change making new opportunities, as well as the self- confidences.
2. The program has positive effect on the subjects’ pattern of parenting skill. Specifically, the experimental group showed significant higher scores on the following variables than the control group: target setting and solution development, compliment, and homework assignment.
3. The program has positive effect on the subjects’ target children’s behavior. Specifically, the experimental group showed significant higher scores on scores of maternal child-rearing practice questionnaire
4. The program has positive effect on the target children’s perception of mother’s parenting behavior.
5.The effectiveness of the solution-focus parent education program was found to maintain at least four weeks.
6. For the experimental group, the effectiveness of the program was found to increase across the various phase of the treatment.
The limitations and implications of the results were also discussed.
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