effectiveness of reality therapy on parent-child conflicts and happiness in adolescents of ilam province

Introduction: the present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of reality therapy on parent-child conflicts with father-son and happiness in male adolescents in ilam province.materials and methods: this applied research was conducted by experimental method (pre and post-test control group and random assignment). the statistical population of the study consisted of all the first high school teenagers of shahriari high school in ilam in the 2021-2022 academic year, of which 30 individuals who were in the moderate to poor range in this questionnaire and randomly were assigned into intervention and control groups. to measure the dependent variable -the parent-child conflict- murray strauss scale and for the happiness variable snider scale were used.results: the results of this research, which was conducted with multivariate covariance analysis, showed a decrease in the post-test scores of the experimental group compared to the control group (p < 0.05). on the other hand, the results of covariance analysis showed that after the test, happiness scores in the experimental group decreased significantly compared to the control group (p < 0.05).conclusion: based on these results, it can be said that the reality therapy program reduces parent-child conflicts and increases happiness in teenagers.akbar azizifar: google scholar, pubmed