Recently, single mother households are exposed to poverty, children’s juvenile crime problem and various family trouble with society change but the family resource to get over these problems are scarce. Therefore, to develop the psychological and functional resource would be the best way to enhance their ability to keep their family life.
In this study, to developed the group program based on the needs analysis of single mothers, for improvement Parenting Sense of Competence of Single-Mother Households. To develop the program, previous parenting sense of competence programs were reviewed and analyzed.
The aim of the parenting program is to help parents maximize family strength on their own, guide their children in more efficient way, and as a result, raise parenting sense of competence and family ability. This will surely play a vital role as a useful method do social work practice in preventing psychological and behavioral problems in childhood and adolescent in terms of healthy family functioning. Furthermore, this program can have benefits from solving the problems of previous parenting programs with deficit perspective which is opposite to strength perspective and have advantage of cultural sensitiveness to apply to Healthy Family Support Center of local society because it utilizes each family’s strength.