The effectiveness narrative and group play therapy on reducing behavioral disorders syndrome in school children

mehdi mellatkhah¹ najmeh mellatkhah² samaneh mellatkhah³

IOI Code : XYCH-AECEB
Publication : 3rd International conference on Management , Economics and Humanities(icmeh.org)
Abstract :
    The aim of the present study was to determine , the effectiveness narrative and group play therapy on reducing behavioral disorders syndrome in school children mashhad city . In this quasi-experimental design with pretest - posttest control group the study population consisted of six area school children in mashhad in the 94-93 school year, 16 school children using and randomly assigned to two groups, examination group (n = 8) and control group (n = 8 ). the experimental group played in five 60-minute sessions of narrative and group play therapy received . the control group did not receive therapy. to measure the variables Child Symptom Inventory (CSI-4) was used analysis of data using analysis of covariance was performed using spss software findings from the research showed., that narrative and group play therapy has a significant effect (P<0/05) to reduse behavioral disorders syndrome in school children.

Keywords : narrative group play therapy behavioral disorders syndrome school children