the effectiveness of good enough parenting training with schema therapy approach and positive parenting training on parental locus of control and meta-parenting in mothers of children with conduct disorder

The current research was conducted with the aim of comparing the effectiveness of effective parenting training with the schema therapy approach and positive parenting training on parental locus of control and meta-parenting in mothers of children with conduct disorder. the method of the current research was a quasi-experimental one with pre-test-post-test and a control group with a follow-up stage. the population included all mothers of students with behavioral problems in the second period of elementary school in tehran in the academic year of 2020-2021. from this population, after the implementation of the sprafkin test (the fourth edition) a sample of 60 people (three groups of 20 children’s mothers, including two experimental groups and one control group) was selected using the availability sampling. they were given sprafkin children’s behavioral syndrome questionnaires and parental locus of control questionnaire by campiz et al. the data was analyzed using repeated measures analysis of variance. the results revealed that both interventions led to a significant increase in parental locus of control and meta-parenting. also, there was no significant difference between their effectiveness. according to the results of the present study, it is suggested that educators, therapists and psychologists design and develop therapeutic and educational interventions to support children with conduct disorders, because effective parenting can provide the possibility of better control of behavioral problems in these children.