The Effectiveness of Attachment based Parent Training on Increasing Materal Caregiving Quality in Preschool anxious Children

The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of attach-ment based parent training on increa-sing care giving quality in mothers of preschool anxious children. As such, 278 mothers of 2 to 6 years old chil-dren who were selected through avail-able cluster sampling method from 6 nursery schools of Tehran, completed the Maternal Caregiving Quality scale. Based on obtained scores on this scale and considering including and exclu-ding criteria, finally 61 mothers were selected as research sample and were assigned in experimental group (30 mothers) and control group (31 mo-thers). Attachment based parent train-ing package was given to experimental group during in 8 weekly group sessions) 8 to 12 mothers in each group(at nursery schools. After train-ing sessions, and 3 months later, The Maternal Caregiving Quality scale was completed again by both groups. The results indicated that Parent Trai-ning Package has increased the sensit-iveness, responsiveness and also emo-tional availability and decreased conf-lict and confusion of mothers in the experimental group, and the results of follow up showed that these changes were stable over 3 months. Based on the results, this package can be used and be effective in clinical settings to increase the maternal care giving qua-lity and prompting the mother-child relationships.