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The purpose of this study was to provide information about the Strategy-parent training pro-gram. The Strategy-program is specifically developed for the parents of children with ADHD-symptoms. The study’s goal was to find out how parents’ experiences provides signs of pro-grams impacts. The study reflects parents’ experiences against the goals and requirements of the parent training program. This kind of reflection has not been done before. Parents’ ex-periences of the Strategy-program have been reviewed earlier in Sweden. Those included a study of the effects of psychoeducation and medical treatments, a report with pilot study and few theses. I implemented this study as qualitative study using phenomenology-hermeneutical approach. Data was collected with surveys on four Strategy-courses in autumn 2019 organized by ADHD-association. Courses were organized in Vaasa, in Heinola and in Helsinki. The survey was held in two parts. The first part was answered at the beginning of the course and the second part at the end of the course. The survey was answered by 68 parents. I analyzed da-ta with theory guided content analysis. Parents who took part of the study had positive experiences of the impacts of the Strategy-program. Majority of parents felt that the course met their goals. Parents expressed the goals for the course according to five themes. The themes were understanding, pedagogical operation models, positive interaction, conception of parenting and changes in child. Parents describe that the course change their information, knowledge, and experience of parenting positively. According the study, strategy-program responds to the goals and criteria of contents of the parent training. As so the Strategy parent training program should be considered as one of the support methods for parents of children with adhd symptoms.