The Effect of Education Program for Mothers and Adolescents on Reducing Behavioral Problems and Increase the Social Skills of Adolescent’s Girls in During Puberty

Objective: It is important pay attention to behavioral problems and social skills of adolescents and educate them and parents in the puberty. The purpose of this study the effect of education program for mothers and adolescents on reducing behavioral problems and increase the social skills of adolescent’s girls in during puberty. Method: The present study was a semi-experimental, pre-test and post-test with control and follow-up group. The statistical population included all girl students in Yazd, who were studying in public schools during the academic year of 1396-97. A randomized cluster sampling, 30 adolescent girls was selected which were randomly assigned to both experimental and control groups. The mothers of the subjects responded to the questions of the BASC-3 and SSIS questionnaire to collect data. The intervention sessions included 30 sessions for the experimental group, held separately for the education of mothers and adolescents. It should be noted that the control group did not receive any training. The data were analyzed using SPSS-23 software, descriptive statistics, standard deviation, and multivariate covariance analysis. Results: The findings of this study revealed that there is a significant difference between the two experimental and control groups after presentation of the educational program, and the educational program reduced the behavioral problems and increased the social skills in the experimental group compared to the control group (P <0.001). Discussion and Conclusion: According to the results of this study, education could play an important role in reducing behavioral problems and increasing social skills during puberty it can be concluded that the education of parents and adolescents and their level of awareness during puberty is important and it can be suggested that appropriate interventions and interventions models should be considered at the puberty and prior to that.