Effectiveness of Mindful Parenting on Emotional Self-Regulation in Children with ADHD

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of mindful parenting on emotional self-regulation in children aged 7-12 years with attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

This research was supposed as a quasi experimental, pretest and posttest with control group in 30 mothers of Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disordered children aged  were selected by sample available, and then randomly assigned 15 individuals in experimental and 15 individuals in control groups. After pretest (BRIEF: behavior rating inventory of execution functioning test) the training package of mindful parenting was completed in eight sessions of two hours by using BRIEF (behavior rating inventory of execution functioning) test as data collection tools. In this study, we used ANCOVA to analyze research data.

The results of the study showed that post-test scores in experimental group with control of convergent variance had a significant difference with pre-test scores.

Based on the results of this study, it can be said that mindful parenting can play an important role on the emotional self-regulation in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Moreover mindful parenting as a complementary therapy, can be used in treatment of Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disordered children and for other children with pervasive developmental disorders.