Comparing the effectiveness of self-monitoring technique and partial self-regulation technique on impulsivity and confrontational disobedience in children living in quasifamily centers in Shiraz city

Objective: One of the things that threaten the health of children in childhood is being deprived of their family. Absence of parents for any reason affects the child's development, being deprived of the family center and living in group care environments such as quasi-family centers, makes orphaned and poorly cared for children and teenagers face special emotional and behavioral conditions. The growing statistics of these people and the psychological damage inflicted on them cannot be ignored, so the purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of self-monitoring and self-regulation techniques on impulsiveness and confrontational disobedience in children living in some quasi-family centers. Method: This semi-experimental research was a pre-test and post-test design with a randomized control group. The statistical population of the research was children aged ۶ to ۱۲ living in two quasi-family centers with oppositional disobedience and impulsivity. ۶۰ of them were selected by random sampling and were divided into two groups of ۳۰ people, control and experimental. In order to collect data, oppositional disobedience disorder (ODDRC) and impulsivity tests (Barrett et al.) were used. The experimental group received ۸ sessions of ۹۰ minutes (once a week) under the training of self-monitoring technique based on Mark Schneider's theory and ۸ sessions of partial self-regulation based on Zimmerman's theory, and the control group did not receive any treatment. Data were analyzed through multivariate analysis of covariance. Findings: The results showed that in the post-test stage, the groups receiving the self-monitoring and self-regulation protocol had a significant difference compared to the control group in reducing oppositional disobedience and impulsivity. (P<۰.۰۵) Based on the findings, both treatments are suitable options for reducing confrontational disobedience and reducing aggression and impulsivity in traumatized children living in quasi-family centers. Conclusion: Therefore, it can be concluded that based on the findings, self-monitoring and self- regulation is a suitable and helpful option to reduce impulsivity, it has a direct effect on the treatment of oppositional defiant disorder, and it can be considered as a measured proposal.