PARENTING SKILLS ENHANCEMENT FOR CHILDREN IN DIGITAL AGE THROUGH INNOVATIVE CONTEMPORARY FAMILY COUNSELING

Abstract

This study aimed to; 1) develop the innovative contemporary family counseling for enhancing parenting skills in the digital age, and 2) examine the effects of the developed innovative contemporary family counseling for parenting skills in digital age. The samples comprised of 20 pairs of parents with children aged 13-15 years living in Chonburi province. All 20 pairs of parents had average point of parenting skills in the digital age at moderate score and volunteered to participated in the study. The simple random sampling method was adopted to assign sample into two groups equally: experimental groups and a control group with 10 pairs of parents each. The instruments used for collecting data were the Parenting skills in the digital age’s Test had reliability .914 and the innovative contemporary family counseling. The data were analyzed using mean, standard deviation and Two-way repeated measure analysis of variance. The findings were as follows; 1) The innovative contemporary family counseling had 10 sessions of 60-90 minutes; the 1^st and 10^th sessions are face-to-face counseling, the 4^th and 6^th sessions are self-study sessions, and the 2^nd, 3^rd, 5^th, 7^th, 8^th and 9^th sessions are online counseling and 2) The results of the innovative contemporary family counseling for enhancing parenting skills in the digital age are: 2.1) At post-test, parents’ participating in the innovative contemporary family counseling obtained higher score on parenting skills in the digital age than control group. 2.2) The parents’ participating in the innovative contemporary family counseling obtained higher score on parenting skills in the digital age at post-test and follow-up than pre-test.