the relationship between cognitive-behavioral skills and mother-child interaction with symptoms of conduct disorder and oppositional defiant disorder in children with adhd

Introduction: nowadays, the main focus of modern researches in the field of adhd has been on the area of comorbid disorders and reducing their symptoms. in this regard, cognitive-behavioral therapies have tried to reduce the symptoms by using methods such as self-control, problem-solving, and social skills. given the important role of the family, the present study investigated the pre-assumptions of the treatment by addressing the structural relationships between the social skills, problem-solving skills, and self-control with the symptoms of conduct disorder and oppositional defiant disorders in the children with adhd and the mediating role of the mother-child interaction. methods: this study was performed on 104 male students, fourth to sixth grade students of the elementary schools in yazd city, iran. in this study, the child symptom inventory (csi), child-parent relationship scale (cprs), problem-solving inventory (psi), self-control rating scale (scrs), and matson evaluation of social skills with youngsters (messy) were used. the results were analyzed with path analysis by spss software version 23. results: findings showed that problem-solving skills, self-control skills, social skills, and mother-child interaction can explain 75% of the variance of cd and 71% of the variance of odd in the model. in another section of the analysis, the findings showed that the effect of problem-solving and self-control skills on the mother-child interaction was significant, but the social skills had no significant effect on the mother-child interaction. also, the problem-solving variable can affect the cd through the mediating variable in the mother-child interaction, and also has a direct relationship with the current disorder but does not have a significant effect on odd. the self-control variable in addition to its direct relationship to disorder can affect cd and odd through the mother-child interaction. conclusion: self-control, problem-solving, and social skills are associated with the symptoms of behavioral disorders in the children with adhd, and can be used in designing cognitive-behavioral therapy packages, and also the way the mother and child interact, is effective in this type of treatments.