Under the COVID-19, individuals who were home Quarantine experienced new challenges on their parent-child relationship and couple relationship. The current project aimed to provide psychological interventions for both parents and couples in order to improving their relationship. The online intervention of group intervention and individual intervention are going to be conducted. The relationship between parent-child, couples and emotion regulation will be tested.
Behavioral: Cognitive and behavioral intervention.
Two hours group sessions including mindfulness and emotion regulation. The practice of mindfulness is taught to parents to become aware of their thoughts and emotion on the present moment. The behavioral intervention has parents develop an Positive Time-out for dealing with conflict and negativity, using strategies to down-regulate their own negative emotions.
Behavioral: Problem-solving and relationship improvement intervention.
Two hours group sessions including problem-solving and improving marital relationship . In the problem-solving part, the knowledge and techniques of problem-solving are taught to couple. relationship improvement part which promote the couple relationship by being aware of their own and their partner's deep-seated needs and communicating in a congruent way.
Inclusion Criteria:
1. Parents of students in primary and secondary school.
2. Parents must had primary school education or above.
Exclusion Criteria:
1. Parents cannot speak or read Chinese.
2. Parents have severe mental or physical illness.
Beijing Normal University
Beijing, Beijing, China
Investigator: Xiuyun Lin, professor
Contact: 8610-58805770
linxy@bnu.edu.cn