The Effectiveness of Instruction Based on Cognitive Approach on Family Relationship

Problem solving skill is considered to be one of the cognitive skills that help people to solve their internal and external issues. Teaching problem solving skills can help adolescents to prevent escalation of their problems and getting into family conflicts. Many of parents and their children lack problem solving skills. For this reason, some experts conduct problem solving workshops for parents as well as for children and adolescents.The purpose of the present research was to evaluate the efficacy of proble-m solving workshops designed for p-arents of preteens. In these workshops topics such as understanding other's emotions, ideas, and motivations, finding various solut- ions for a single problem, giving attention to their behavior's conseque-nces and sequential planning were taught. Participants included 96 mothers of students in private schools. These mothers were instructed by skillful instructors in five workshops lasted ten sessions, two hours each.The present study utilized a quasi-experimental research method with pre and post tests without control group. Three subscales of Family Ass- essment Device (FAD) were used before and after the workshops: communication, affective responsiven-ess, and affective involvement.Analysis of data indicated that work-shops had positive effects on subject's performance in "affective involvemen-t". Finally, implications of the findin-gs, research limitations and suggestio-ns for future research are presented.