علی محمدی لیه

Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of parenting skills training on increasing mothers' control over the performance of children and improving parenting skills in mothers of secondary high school female students. Methods: This study was a quasi-experimental study with a pretest-posttest for the dependent group, and its statistical population was all mothers of secondary high school students from Siyahkal city of Guilan province, among them 32 people were selected using an available and voluntary sampling method. Parenting skills training was held in 8 sessions of one hour, and the Alabama Parental Skills Questionnaire (Frick, 1991) and Parental Locus of Control Questionnaire (Campis et al., 1986) were used to collect data. Data were analyzed using SPSS software and a t-test for the dependent group. Results: The results showed that there is a significant difference between the scores of positive parenting, poor supervision, parental efficacy, and parental control in pre-test and post-test (P<0.01). Conclusion: It seems parenting skills training increases monitoring, self-efficacy, and improves maternal control over girls' performance, and it is necessary to use the results of this study in interventions and therapeutic programs for increasing parenting skills and improving parent-adolescent relationships.