Abstract:
The present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of play therapy based on the parent-child relationship on emotional self-regulation of primary school children with sluggish cognitive tempo. The present study was quasi-experimental with a pretest, posttest, control group, and two-month follow-up period design. The statistical population of the present study included primary school children with sluggish cognitive tempo in the city of Isfahan in the spring of 2021. 35 children with Sluggish Cognitive Tempo were selected through a multi-stage clustered sampling method and they were randomly accommodated into experimental and control groups (17 children in the experimental group and 18 children in the control group). The experimental group received eight seventy-five-minute play-therapy sessions based on parent-child relationship interventions for one month. The applied questionnaires in this study included a sluggish cognitive tempo questionnaire (McBurnet et al, 2014) and an emotional self-regulation questionnaire (Shields & Cicchetti, 1998). The data from the study were analyzed through Mixed ANOVA via SPSS23 software. The results showed that play therapy based on the parent-child relationship has a significant effect on the emotional self-regulation of primary school children with sluggish cognitive tempo (p<0.001). According to the findings of the present study, it can be concluded that play therapy based on the parent-child relationship can be applied as an efficient method to increase the emotional self-regulation of primary school children with sluggish cognitive tempo through employing Empathetic and intimate reflection of the child's feelings, encouragement and strengthening of parents and making communication problems with children natural.
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The effectiveness of parent-child relationship-based play therapy on emotional self-regulation of elementary school children with slow cognitive tempo PhD student in General Psychology, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, / Shiva Akhavan Najafabad, Iran.
1 Abstract The present research was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of parent-child relationship-based play therapy on the emotional self-regulation of elementary school children with slow cognitive tempo.
The results showed that parent-child relationship-based play therapy has a significant effect on the emotional self-regulation of elementary school children with slow cognitive tempo (p < 0.
One of the parent-based therapeutic methods is play therapy based on parent-child relationship 5, the research results of Adili, Kalantari, and Abedi (1394); Abedi, Seyedghaleh, and Bahramipour (1396); Ashouri and Karimnejad (1398); Soltani and Farhadi (1398); Jafari Rangchi and Farhadi (1398); Adili, Mirzaei, and Abedi (1398); Karimi and Dasht-Bozorgi .
This is while, in general, various research results have shown that play therapy leads to the improvement of children's psychological, emotional, behavioral, and affective functioning (Stulmaker & Ray, 5, 2015; Daniel, 6, 2019; Woollett, Bandeira, and Hatcher, 7, 2020; Alimoradi, Ghorban-Shiroudi, Khalatbari, and Rahmani, 1397; Pirabbasi and Safarzadeh, 1397; Ebrahimi, Aslipour, and Khosrojavid, 1398; Karimi-Lichahi, Azarian, and Akbari, 1398; Rezaei-Moghaddam, Babaei, and Rajabzadeh, 1398).
Discussion and Conclusion The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the effectiveness of parent-child relationship-based play therapy on the emotional self-regulation of elementary school children with slow cognitive tempo.
The effectiveness of parent-child relationship-based play therapy on emotional self-regulation of elementary school children with sluggish cognitive tempo, Psychology of Exceptional Individuals, 12(45), 193-219.
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