The Effectiveness of Filial Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Art-Play on Meta-emotion View of Mothers of Single-Parent Children during Corona Quarantine

Background: Social distance, which is linked with negative emotional impacts, is one strategy to avoid coronary heart disease, particularly for single parents and their children. The purpose of this research was to see how helpful filial therapy and cognitive-behavioral art-play therapy are for single mothers' emotional perspectives. Methods: A quasi-experimental study was conducted with three groups in two stages: pre-test and post-test. The study's statistical population included mothers of children aged 6 to 12 years in the city of Isfahan in 1400; 54 mothers with volunteer single children were chosen via purposive sampling based on the inclusion criteria and were randomly assigned to three experimental and control groups during public call-in counseling centers. The dependent variable was measured online using Evelynike Parents' (2011) meta-emotion Perspective Questionnaire. In ten consecutive sessions, mothers with children in the two groups received intervention, whereas the control group received no intervention. Multivariate analysis of covariance was used to examine the data, which was done using SPSS software version 27. Results: There was a significant difference in guidance beliefs between the art-play therapy group and the Filial therapy group, as well as between the two modalities of treatment (P<0.01). The findings also revealed a significant difference in views about sufficiency and competence between the art-play, the Filial-control group (P<0.01), as well as between the Filial therapy -control group and the control group (P<0.01). This suggests that art-play, and subsequently filial all boosted meta-emotion and its components in pregnant children's mothers. Conclusion: In addition, the corona pandemic and the accompanying quarantine drew attention to the meta-emotions of the mothers of single-parent children.