Abstract:

This study was carried out to aims to determine the effects of the Parent Training Program for Prevention of Children’s Aggressive Behavior (SADEP), which was developed based on the needs of parents of children who shows aggressive behaviors, children behaviours, difficulties, strengths, family functions and harmony of marriage. In the study, focus group discussions were held with the mothers of children with aggressive behavior and then needs analysis were conducted. Thus SADEP was formed based emerging topics, literature data and experts’ opinions. The program was implemented on 20 mothers who applied to the Children Development Clinic of Ankara Training and Research Hospital who has children with aggressive behavior and who participated in the program voluntarily for a period of 13 weeks. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of the program, a control group with equal number of mothers was established. At the begining of the study Family Information Form and Denver II Developmental Screening Test, which is used for determine the eligibility norms, were applied. In order to fully evaluate the results of the program, The Strenghts and Difficulties Questionarie was applied to mothers from both groups before and after training. Same material was also applied to only the experimental group as a monitoring study 2 months after the training. The Mann Whitney U Test with Bonferroni Adjustment, the Kruskal Wallis H test, the Two-Factor Anova Test for Mixed Measures, the Single Factor Anova Test for Correlated Samplings, the Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient and the effect size analyses was used for analyzing data. As a result of the present study it has been determined that application of SADEP application, had significant effects on the strengths and difficulties of children. Positive effects of SADEP continued during the monitoring period without any decrease. The effect size of the program was determined as a large effect size. It has been concluded that SADEP is a program that can be used as a method to intervene the children with aggressive behavior

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