Introduction:

parental competences correspond to the definition of parents' practical abilities to care for, protect and educate their children, assuring them a healthy development.

Objective:

to structure a psychoeducational program for the development of parental competencies and its implementation in mothers and family assistants in SOS Children's Villages in Equatorial Guinea.

Methods:

a quasi-experimental design of methodological value was carried out, before-after without a control group for the evaluation of the implementation of the Psychoeducational Program. The universe of the study consisted of all the SOS mothers (10) and family assistants (6) of SOS Children's Villages in the city of Bata, Equatorial Guinea, a study based on the dialectical-materialist method, combining empirical level methods, documentary analysis; survey and theoretical level, historical-logical; systemic-structural, modeling; as well as statistics, descriptive and inferential statistics and expert criteria.

Results:

Based on the conceptual theoretical association, resulting from the detailed review and determination of the conceptual theoretical tendencies about the term parental competence and synthesizing these results in the framework of the development of the same in mothers and family assistants of SOS Children's Villages, a psychoeducational program is conceived to implement, In a sequential manner, the foundations that support the components of the program are conceived, so that they acquire personal, emotional and educational strategies that allow them to get involved in an effective way in the construction of a positive family dynamics and in the development of adequate parental models for children and adolescents.

Conclusions:

a psycho-educational program was structured in eight work sessions, dynamizing three fundamental moments, with a design of indicators for the initial, process and final evaluation of the program, the contents in the development of parental competences.

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