This study was conducted to investigate the cognitive function and attention of the children with
neurosurgical diseases and their mothers' parenting stress, and to provide a fundamental material
for the therapeutic intervention that the therapy team consisting of relevant experts and medical
staff can make in a diversified way. In particular, the purpose of this study was to look into
the patterns of cognition, behavior, and parenting stress in the group of the children who went
through surgical and non-surgical treatments on neurosurgical diseases, and to lay the foundation
for efficient cognitive treatment, psychotherapy, and parent education program in the clinical
scene. The study subjects were 31 children with neurosurgical diseases and their mothers. After
the early diagnosis and therapeutic intervention, their cognition function and attention, and their
mothers' parenting stress were evaluated with the lapse of a certain time. And then, preliminary
and post evaluations were applied to the surgical treatment group and the non-surgical treatment
group in order to analyze any difference between the two groups. According to the analysis, the
children in the surgical treatment group significantly improved overall function, motional
intelligence, and memory, and those in the non-surgical treatment group significantly improved
memory. Regarding parenting stress, the mothers in the surgical treatment group increased stress
in mood (MO) of the child area, and those in the non-surgical treatment group significantly
decreased stress in acceptability (AC) of the child area and the total stress. In addition, the
correlation between the change in the children's cognitive function and the change in their
mother's parenting stress in each group was analyzed, and thereby something related to each
other was found. And the future direction of therapeutic intervention was discussed.