Impact of Psychoeducational Intervention on the Emotional State and Parenting Behavior of Armenian Mothers
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2017
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Psychoeducation acts as an important early step in prevention of many social issues such as family conflicts, parent child relationship problems, school related problems and low self-esteem. It is also an approach to treatment of cases that have emotional problems and mood disturbances triggered by stressors found in their family, work or social environments.
The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of psychoeducational group intervention on establishing positive differential impact in parenting skills, management of stressors and their effects as well as self-esteem of mothers of low income Armenian families. The end goal is to come up with an effective empowerment devise for these women to learn and develop skills that help them overcome poverty. Participants (N=183), 93 experimental and 90 control group, were Armenian mothers of children less than 18 years old, with low socioeconomic background living in Bourj Hammoud. The study utilized a pre-post design self-report design, where participants filled in questionnaires measuring Self- Esteem (RSE), the level of depression, anxiety and stress (DASS 21), and quality of parent child relationship (PCRI). The experimental group attended 12 psychoeducation sessions addressing self-awareness, management of emotional disturbances due mainly to poverty and parenting pressures. The control group comprised those mothers who visit the center but who did not take part in psychoeducational sessions. Results obtained by pre-post-tests’ comparisons between the control and experimental groups tended to support the predicted hypotheses, indicating a clear positive impact of the psychoeducation sessions on mothers on all measures. The experimental group showed higher self-esteem, less depression, less anxiety and stress levels and improved parent-child relationship compared to the control group.
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Ketchejian, R. (2017). Impact of Psychoeducational Intervention on the Emotional State and Parenting Behavior of Armenian Mothers (SBS thesis, Haigazian University)