It has been shown that parents of children with developmental disabilities have high levels of stress and are more likely to arouse anger due to a sense of inability to cope with the child’s problematic behavior. Feelings of anger are particularly likely to lead to excessive reprimand and corporal punishment of children in parenting. Anger can lead to severe reprimands and corporal punishment of children (Nakatani, 2015, 2016), and even minor reprimands can cause strong fear and traumatization for children with sensory sensitivity characteristics (Shimizu, 2015; Hayashi, Egawa, & Someya, 2015). In other words, emotional control of anger is an important issue for parents of children with developmental disabilities.

The purpose of this workshop is to understand the mechanism of the effect of the parental emotion monitoring application ”Jibunn Navi” developed by the implementer and to obtain suggestions for modification of the application. The purpose of “Jibunn navi” is to help parents deepen their self-understanding of their own anger and learn to control it, especially from a cognitive perspective. In addition, it is assumed that the program will be used in parallel with programs such as “parent training (PT)” and “parent programs,” which aim to “maintain and establish skills for coping with children’s problem behaviors” in supporting parents of children with developmental disabilities.

Each session was conducted with about 7 to 8 mothers of children with developmental disabilities. The participants in this workshop were members who had agreed to participate in the intervention study using the developed application, and we invited them to participate in the workshop by informing them that we would hold a briefing session on the use of the application. Each session lasted about one hour and was conducted online using Zoom. On the day of the workshop, the workshop organizers and co-researchers first introduced themselves and thanked the participants for their cooperation. The first half of the session was a psychoeducational session on “Cognitive Anger Control,” the theme of the application. In the first half, the theme of the application, “Cognitive Anger Control,” was explained as a psychoeducational session. Then, in the second half, the actual screen of the application was shared and “how to use the application” was explained. This was followed by a question-and-answer period.