فاعلية برنامج التدريب المنظم على الوالدية (step) في تعديل الأسلوب الوالدي لدى عينة من الأمهات اللاجئات السوريات
This study aimed to modify parenting style among a sample of married Adolescent Syrian refugees through investigating the effectiveness of training program on parenting skills based on Systematic Training for Effective Parenting (STEP). The study consisted of 30 Adolescent Syrian refugees mothers who were married before the age of 18 years, their ages ranged between (15-18) years. They live with their husbands and with their children in the same home and they arrived to Jordan between 2013-2015. The population study attended to Jordan river foundation- Queen Rania for family and child, the sample was divided randomly into two equal groups: experimental and control group which consisted of 10 participants for each group. The researcher had used the authority parental Scale to evaluate the parental style used among the participants, the parenting training program based on Alfred Adler theory in parental education and based on Rodolf Driekers Thoughts which was Collected in the program of (Systematic Training for Effective Parenting- STEP). The training program included 15 training sessions were applied on the experimental group over 8 weeks, two sessions per week, the length of each session was between (1.5-2) hours. To answer the question of the study, the researcher composed MANOVA and ANCOVA. The results indicated significant statistical differences at (α > 0.05) between the experimental group and the control group on all dimensions of authority parental scale, so as to favor the experimental group in post scale, which indicated that there was impact for the program training on improving parenting skills and used more democratic parenting style and less authoritative and permissive style. According to the results in this study, the researcher presented some recommendations; the important one was using the program Systematic Training for Effective Parenting (STEP) to improve other variables for mothers, in addition to involving fathers in the training program with mothers. (Author’s abstract)