Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 Department of Psychology, University of Guilan
2 Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran.
Abstract
The birth of a child with disability endangers the psychological functioning of the parents. It is necessary to use approach-oriented, short-term and cost-effective interventions to improve the specific psychological conditions of these parents. The present study was conducted with the aim of the effectiveness of emotional-cognitive resilience training on parental stress, emotion regulation and resilience of parents of mildly mentally retarded children. The statistical population was made up of parents with a son with mild mental retardation aged 8 to 12 studying at Marjoei School for Exceptional Children (2) in Karaj City. The research sample was 30 parents who were available and selected based on the study criteria and were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The research tools included: parenting stress questionnaire (Abidin, 1995),,Scales of emotion regulation difficulties (Gratz & Romer, 2004) and resilience (Connor & Davidson, 2003). Smith and Ascoff (2016) emotional-cognitive resilience training was provided for 6 sessions of 50 to 60 minutes and once a week as a group in the experimental group. The data were analyzed by single and multivariate covariance method. The findings showed that the educational program had a significant effect on reducing parenting stress components, increasing emotional regulation and resilience of parents of children with intellectual disabilities (P<0.05). Therefore it seems that the current training in the form of an approach-oriented, short-term and interaction-oriented program has been able to improve the cognitive-emotional flexibility of parents in interaction with their children by combining cognitive-behavioral strategies and relaxation training, mindfulness and other techniques.
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