This study aims at developing a pre-parent education program to improve the Learned helplessness of Youth
mothers in Welfare Center and verifying its effect. In order to develop such a program, a literature study
and a demand survey targeting staff members of Youth mothers center have been conducted on the basis of
Kim Chang-Dae(2003)'s Program Development Model, and an 8-session program was designed for 24 teenaged
unmarried mothers in Seoul Center and lasted for 4-8 weeks in total: 120 minutes per session once or twice a
week. In order to verify its effect, the target of this survey was devided into two groups: an experimental
group(12) and a control group(12), and an analysis of survey results has been carried out using program
evaluation forms in a statistical way through pre- examination and post-examination. The statistical way of
analysis turned out to be an analysis of frequency, an Independent Samples t-test to verify homogeneity of
the two groups to compare the effects of the program because of its pre-gap and post-gap. As a result of
analysis, it was found that the learned helplessness of Youth mothers decreased and the satisfaction with the
role of parents improved. Participants in the program reported their satisfaction with suitability, usefulness,
easiness of the program, and staff members of sheltering facilities, as assistant coordinators of the program, also
showed their satisfaction with appropriacy, usefulnes, practicability, contributiveness of the program. Such a
result seems to prove that the educational program for prospective parents targeting Youth mothers has some
effect on the improvement in learned helplessness and the satisfaction with the role of parents. Lastly, in
order to develop more helpful program, there have been discussions over a demand survey for Youth mothers
as well as facility employees; the reinforcement of concrete communication dialogue method to improve the
relations of teenaged single mothers with their own family or their single father partners; the expansion
of education for Youth mothers, who decided to raise their child, about children's infancy development
stage; the reinforcement of a program to develop a positive attitude towards and improve regulations of
depressed and negative recognition of learned helplessness and lack of control.