Abstract
This research is a semi-empirical study aiming to examine the effect of family trainings and life skills among the families, if Mashhad with chronic mental disorders. In doing this research, a sample of 300 subjects has been chosen in the stratified random and systematic approach from the families of chronic mental disorders who have been admitted in round the clock centers in Mashhad and who have been in the waiting list and these subjects have been divided to two groups of experiment and control randomly and we introduce family trainings and life skills to the experiment group. There was no training to control group. These two groups were tested in period to the beginning of trainings and post training with instruments such as taking care and mental disorders attitude questionnaire, life skills attitude questionnaire, California social adjustment? questionnaire, Rosenberg self-esteem, general health questionnaire and epidemiological mental disorders questionnaire. The result indicated that training had no effect on the attitude of families toward taking care of mental disorder, but family member’s attitude toward mental disorder had been changed. These trainings have been influential on changing family member’s attitude toward life skills, social adjustment, self-esteem, mental health increase and reducing mental disorders.
Highlights
A sample of 300 subjects has been chosen in the stratified random and systematic approach from the families of chronic mental disorders who have been admitted in round the clock centers in Mashhad and who have been in the waiting list and these subjects have been divided to two groups of experiment and control randomly and we introduce family trainings and life skills to the experiment group
According to the first hypothesis: “family and life skills trainings are influential in family members’ attitudes towards caring mental disorder patients in the family”, for testing this hypothesis in both experiment and control groups, t-test is used in independent group and in dependant groups in researcher made test (Table 1)
Family and life skills trainings do not result in differences in both control and experiment group in respect to caring patients in family
Summary
Psychological and educational commentators consider family organization as the most important institution in nurturing and human behavior and consider family environment as the basic and most enduring factor in the personality genesis of human and the laying plot for their physical, moral, social, rational and affective development [1]. This belief that family members gain many of their characteristics from learning experiences in family is one of the obvious findings of today’s thought. The main assumption is that behavioral and emotional problems are due to structural characteristics of families, so any change in undesirable structure of families which continue these problems can be effective in changing subject’s symptoms [2]
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