Abstract:
The aims of this research were to; 1) study the parental quality of parents who have teenage
children in Thailand, and 2) study the effects of a model of integrative family counseling techniques to enhance
the quality of parents who have teenage children. The research was divided into 2 phases. First phase aims to
study the quality of 480 parents who have teenage children in Thailand, participants obtained by multi-stage
sampling. Second phase aimed to study the effects of the integrated family counseling model techniques for
enhancing the quality of parents of twenty-four families who were randomly assigned into three equally sized
groups: two experiment groups and one control group. All participants were willing to participate in the study
and their the parental quality were at a moderate ( X = 90.16). The instruments of the research were; 1) a quality
measurement model of parents with adolescent children developed by the researcher. The reliability of the scale
was at 0.94 and 2) an integrative family counseling model and a program of integrative family group
counseling model. The researcher conducted the study in 3 phase: the pre-intervention, the post-intervention
and the follow-up phase. Mean, Standard deviation, and two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used for
analyzing data. The results of the research were as follows:
1. The average score of the quality of parenting of parents with teenage children in Central region
was at the highest level ( X = 4.49). The average score of the quality of parents with the teenage children in the
Eastern region was the lowest (X = 3.59).
2. The model developed by the researcher consisted of: 1) an integrated family counseling program
that the parents receiving the consultation twice a week for 6 weeks long activity, 60 minutes per day, totaling
12 sessions per family and, 2) family group counseling model fasting, 6 hours a day, totally 12 hours.
3. The results of using a model of the integrative family counseling to enhance the quality of
parents with teenage children were; 1) parents in the experimental group who received the combined Family
Counseling Program had higher parental quality scores in the post-experiment and follow-up stages than the
pre-experiment with statistical significance at the .05 level. The quality scores of the parenting after the
experiment were higher than the control group with statistical significance at the .05 level. 2) The second
experimental group counseling model that using the family consultation method had higher quality scores for
parenting in the post-experiment and follow-up stages than the pre experiment with statistically significant at
the .05 level, and had a higher parental quality score than the control group with statistical significance at the
.05 level.