Mehdi Pourrezaian
Abstract
Social phobia that has been renamed social anxiety disorder in the DSM 5, causes severe disability of person in social communication and a sense of shame and reluctance to participate in certain social situations. So using an effective therapy for it, is very important. Although the theater-based therapies ...
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Social phobia that has been renamed social anxiety disorder in the DSM 5, causes severe disability of person in social communication and a sense of shame and reluctance to participate in certain social situations. So using an effective therapy for it, is very important. Although the theater-based therapies to treat this disorder have been recommended, their clinical application of these methods not be seen. So the main aim of this research was testing the effectiveness of psychodrama as a theater-based therapy in treatment of social anxiety. The present research is an experimental case study research that has used AB method. The client was a ten-year-old boy with social anxiety. To estimate the amount and type of client’s anxiety, the Spence children’s anxiety scale was used. The results of therapist and client’s mother observation, showed a significant decline in the social anxiety’s symptoms. Also, the comparison of client’s scores of Spence children’s anxiety scale in the pretest and posttest represents a substantial reduction in the level of his social anxiety. According to the research’s findings, we can say that psychodrama is an appropriate and effective therapy in treatment of social anxiety, but given that this study is a case study, its results can hardly be generalized. So the recommendation of the present researchers is doing more researches to testing the effectiveness of psychodrama in treatment of the mentioned disorders.
Zeinab Tashakori; Farangis Kazemi; Janet Hashemi Azar
Abstract
Separation anxiety disorder usually happened, when the children has the experience or anticipate separation from their parents. Diagnosis of SAD in childhood is very important to protect child from an injury on mental health. The purpose of this research was to investigate the effect of group relaxation ...
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Separation anxiety disorder usually happened, when the children has the experience or anticipate separation from their parents. Diagnosis of SAD in childhood is very important to protect child from an injury on mental health. The purpose of this research was to investigate the effect of group relaxation on reduction of SAD on children with separation anxiety disorder symptoms. For this purpose, the researchers used the quasi-experimental design pretest-posttest model with control group. A month after the intervention sessions, follow-up sessions were conducted. The statistical population consisted of all first grade girls with separation anxiety disorder in Semnan. The sample members consisted of 24 patients with purposive sampling method based on the fifth edition of the diagnostic statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM-5) were diagnosed with separation anxiety disorder, and after obtaining parental consent to participate in the meetings of the group relaxation were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. Then, group Jacobson relaxation intervention in form of the game during 10 sessions were used for experimental group in order to analyze the data, descriptive statistics methods such as mean and standard deviation and for hypothesis experiment, the two-way ( ANOVA) (SPANOVA) test was used. Results showed that between the effect of relaxation therapy on decreasing symptoms of separation anxiety disorder elementary students there was significant differences between experimental and control groups, and reduction anxiety was more in the experimental group. According to the findings, it can be concluded that the group relaxation intervention in improving symptoms of separation anxiety in children is effective. Therefore, in order to deal with separation anxiety disorder in children is suggested.
