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Covid-19 disease has many psychological consequences, such as parental burnout and child abuse, In addition to physical injuries. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of Pennsylvania resilience-based intervention on parental burnout and child abuse caused by the Covid-19 pandemic in mothers of elementary school students.

The research method was quasi-experimental with pre-test and post-test with control group. The statistical population of the study consisted of mothers of first grade students in Ardakan city in the academic year 2020-2021. 30 people were selected by voluntary sampling method based on inclusion criteria and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The instruments of this study included the Parental Burnout Scale (Rosecom et al., 2018) and Child Abuse (Hosseinkhani et al., 2013). The Pennsylvania resuscitation program was presented to the experimental group on a weekly basis for twelve 1.5-hour sessions, and the control group did not receive training. The data were analyzed using chi-square and multivariate analysis of covariance in SPSS26 statistical software.

The results showed that there was no significant difference between the two groups in terms of demographic variables of age and education (p<0.05). Other results showed that the Pennsylvania Resiliency Program was effective in reducing the scores of parental burnout (p<0.001, F= 27.168) and child abuse (p<0.001, F= 37.466) Caused by the Covid-19 pandemic in mothers of primary school students.

The Pennsylvania resiliency program to be used as an effective intervention to reduce parental burnout and child abuse caused by the Covid-19 pandemic in the mothers of elementary school students, along with other educational and therapeutic methods.

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of emotion-focused group intervention on sexual satisfaction, marital satisfaction and dimensions of mental health in mothers of children with intellectual disability. A quantitative study design using quasi-experimental method including pretest posttest follow-up with control group was used. The population consisted of all mothers with mentally retarded children who their child studying in Meybod in 1397-98 academic year. A total of 24 mothers were selected by available sampling method and randomly assigned in experimental and control groups (12 participants per groups). Participants answered Lovibond’s depression, anxiety and stress scale, Enrich marital satisfaction scale, and Larson sexual satisfaction questionnaire at pretest, posttest and follow-up phases. The experimental group received emotion-focused group intervention intervention in 8 sessions of 1.5 hours (two sessions per week) while the control group did not receive any intervention. Finally, the data were analyzed by repeated measures ANOVA at the significance level of 0.05. The results showed that, compared to control group, the mean scores of sexual satisfaction, marital satisfaction and maintained at the follow up phase (p <0.001). According to the results, it can be concluded that emotion-focused group intervention could improve sexual satisfaction, marital satisfaction and mental health of mothers with intellectual disable children. So, emotion-focused can see as a be a valuable intervention to reduce the problems of mothers with intellectual disable children.

Although the Covid-19 virus has been associated with a number of psychological problems, such as Covid-19 anxiety, components such as avoiding experience and seeking help from the psychological profession can contribute to this level of anxiety. The aim of this study was to The role of experience avoidance and attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help in predicting covid‐19 anxiety.

In terms of the purpose of this research was applied and in terms of data collection method was descriptive and correlational. The statistical population of the study consisted of all adults in Ardakan and Meybod in the period from 26 September to 6 November, 2020.383 people participated in a virtual survey and responded to the following tools. The research instruments included Alipour et al.'s (2020) corona disease anxiety scale, Fisher and Farina's (1995) attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help questionnaire, and Bond's(2007) acceptance and action questionnaire. Finally, after removing missing, 381 questionnaires were statistically analyzed by Pearson correlation method and multiple regression analysis using SPSS24 software.

The results showed that there was a significant positive relationship between experiential avoidance and Covid-19 anxiety (R=0/386, p < 0.001) and also a significant negative relationship between attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help and Covid-19 anxiety (R=-0/220, p < 0.001). The results of regression analysis also showed that 21% of the variance of Covid-19 anxiety was explained by predictor variables (R2=0.212, p < 0.001). Experimental avoidance also played a greater role in predicting Covid-19 anxiety (p < 0.001).

Experiential Avoidance and Attitude to Professional Psychological Assistance Affect Covid-19 Anxiety Rate.