Abstract

Deficit attention disorder/hyperactivity is one of the most popular psychiatric disorders in childhood. The aim of this study was evaluating and comparing the program of parent's behavioral training and cognitive training effect- The child's behavior on decreasing the symptoms of deficit attention disorder/hyperactivity of 8 to 12 years old children in Yazd city.

This study is quasi-experimental and the research plan is multi-group pre-test - post-test with control group. The research sample consisted of 47 persons. Thus, the behavioral parent training group was replaced 17 persons, cognitive behavioral experimental group 15 persons and 15 persons control group.

Data showed that parent's behavioral training has effect on decreasing the symptoms of deficit attention disorder/hyperactivity of 8 to 12 years olds children but child's behavior cognitive training doesn’t have effect on decreasing the symptoms of deficit attention disorder/hyperactivity.

According to the research result which shows the efficiency of parent's behavioral training method than child's behavior cognitive training on decreasing the symptoms of deficit attention disorder/hyperactivity. It seems that using this training method is effective and can be suggested for reducing the symptoms of this disorder.

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