ali akbar soleimani; Ali Soleymani; Kambiz Pirnia
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Play -therapy is a method of changing the child's behavior in which the parent-child interaction is emphasized. The aim of the present study was to examine the effectiveness of play-therapy training based on parent-child relationship on reducing aggression in children with parents under Methadone maintenance ...
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Play -therapy is a method of changing the child's behavior in which the parent-child interaction is emphasized. The aim of the present study was to examine the effectiveness of play-therapy training based on parent-child relationship on reducing aggression in children with parents under Methadone maintenance treatment. The present study was quasi-experimental with pre-test, post-test and control group. All children with parents under Methadone maintenance treatment in age range of 5 to 8 years in Tehran consisted the statistical population of the study. Thus, among 85 mothers that were selected using purposeful sampling method and were willing to cooperate in the study and participate the classes, 50 children who got the score higher than the cut-off point in Relational and clear Aggression Questionnaire by Shahim and were diagnosed of having aggression syndrome, were selected and assigned into experimental (25 individuals) and control (25 individuals) groups. Child-parent group therapy based on Landerth and Braton model was implemented for ten 45-minute sessions as an independent variable. Data were gathered using Relational and Overt Aggression Questionnaire and were analyzed using covariance analysis test and SPSS-18 software. The results showed play-therapy reduced aggression index in physical, verbal and relational components in children (p<0.001). These findings can influence psychological interventions as an independent approach or complement the medical treatment of children with behavioral disorders and psychiatric and clinical applications is important.
Maryam badipoor; Hossein Salimi Bajestani; Seyed Mohammad Kalantarkousheh
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Present study evaluates psychology empowerment effectiveness on decreasing mothers’ conflict of mother-child in Health Room of Tehran city. The method of the study is semi-experimental research with rendering of pre-exam and post-exam by witness group. In this study, we selected two Health Room ...
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Present study evaluates psychology empowerment effectiveness on decreasing mothers’ conflict of mother-child in Health Room of Tehran city. The method of the study is semi-experimental research with rendering of pre-exam and post-exam by witness group. In this study, we selected two Health Room cities of 15th zone of Tehran City Hall and North Afsarieh Health Room Locality. We sampled all available mothers who referred to Health Room after confirming their suitable conditions for our study. These mothers tested about mother-child conflict and finally 30 mothers selected who had the most conflict with their children. Then they divided by two groups by using of Random Selective method and considered in two groups of control and experiment. The experiment group participated in our sessions 8 rounds each 90 minutes. Data gathering tool in our study was scale questionnaire of mother-child conflict tactics. We analyzed gathered data with one variant covariance analysis method. The results showed that mothers’ psychology empowering program cause decrease of mother-child conflict, verbal aggression and physical aggression plus increase of argument between them. So we can claim that these people could decrease conflicts between themselves and their children by increase of self-confident, self-control, anger control and self-decision skill plus improve their irrational believes about their children and encourage them.
