Effectiveness of Compassion-Focused Therapy on Reducing Mother's Anger and their Children's Behavioral Problems

 The present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of compassion-focused therapy on reducing mother's anger and their children's behavioral problems.
The present study was a single subject study with ABA design. In this design, after the subjects reached the baseline position, the intervention was performed individually for 8 one-hour sessions and two weeks after the end of the intervention, follow-up tests were performed again. The sample of this study included 3 mothers with children with behavioral problems who were selected by purposeful sampling method. The Conner's Parents rating scale and a researcher-made checklist of mothers' anger were used to collect data. Data were analyzed using visual analysis of graphs, trending, stability, PND, POD and MPI indices.
The results showed that the intervention for two subjects reduced mother's anger (46.67 and 100% recovery rate) and children's behavioral problems (44.18 and 54.88% recovery rate) has been effective; However, this treatment was not effective in reducing mother's anger and behavioral problems in one of the subjects.
 In general, these results show that compassion-focused interventions reduce maternal anger and thus improve the mother-child relationship, and this will improve the child's behavioral problems.