Effects of teaching problem solving strategies to parents of pre-teens: A study of family relationship

Abstract The purpose of the present research was to evaluate the efficacy of problem solving workshops designed for parents of pre-teens. In these workshops topics such as understanding others’ emotions, ideas, and motivations, as well as finding various solutions for a problem, were taught. Participants included 96 mothers of students in private schools. These mothers were instructed in five workshops lasted ten sessions, two hours each. Three subscales of Family Assessment Device (FAD) were used before and after the workshops: communication, affective responsiveness, and affective involvement. Analysis of data indicates that the workshops had positive effects on subjects’ performance in “affective involvement”. © 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd.