The Effect of Play Therapy with Filials Approach on self-control, responsibility, assertiveness and cooperation among 4–6-year-old children in Isfahan
Subject Areas : Educationalelahe Jalali 1 , hassan khoshakhlagh 2 *
1 - Department of Familly Counseling, Khomaini shahr Branch, Faculty of humanities, Islamic Azad University, Iran.
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Naein Branch, Islamic Azad University, Naein, Iran
Keywords: filial therapy, self-control, responsibility, assertiveness and cooperation,
Abstract :
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of play therapy with filial approach on self-control, responsibility, assertiveness and cooperation among 4-6 year-old children in Isfahan.. The research method was quasi-experimental with pretest-posttest with experimental and control group. The statistical population of this study included of all pre-school children in Isfahan city in the academic year 98-97. The sampling method was convenience sampling. Thus, 30 children aged 4 to 5 years with their mothers were selected in a purposeful manner from the Moeoud kindergarten and randomly assigned to control and experimental groups(15 each). The experimental group received the Filial therapy in during 8 sessions of 120 minutes once a week, but the control group received no intervention. In this study, Gresham and Elliot Social Skills parental form (1990)were used for data collection in the pre-test and post-test phases on two groups. The collected data were analyzed with using multivariable analyze of covariance. The results showed that the program of intervention had a significant effect on increasing self-control, responsibility, assertiveness and cooperation in the experimental group (p <0. 05). Therefore, it can be concluded that filial therapy is an effective way to strengthen cooperation, self-control, responsibility and assertiveness children.
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