Document Type : Original Article
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1 Assistant Professor of Psychology Department. Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences. Rahman Institute of Higher Education, Ramsar, Iran.
2 Assistant Professor of Psychology Department. Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences. Rahman Institute of Higher Education, Ramsar, Iran
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of play therapy and story therapy in improving the behavioral problems of mentally disabled children. The research sample consisted of 45 elementary school students selected through purposive sampling from students studying in special schools in Bandar Anzali city. Their parents answered the Achenbach Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL, Achenbach, and Rescorla, 2007), and the students were randomly assigned to three groups (two experimental groups and one control group). After the pre-test, experimental intervention (8 sessions 45-minute play therapy sessions and 10 sessions 45-minute narrative therapy), and post-test, the data were analyzed using the analysis of the covariance method and the Bonferroni post hoc test. The findings showed that play therapy and narrative therapy are effective in improving behavioral problems in children with intellectual disabilities(P<0.01), and there is no difference between the effectiveness of play therapy and narrative therapy in improving behavioral problems in children with intellectual disabilities (p>0.05). the two methods of play therapy and storytelling can be used to improve behavioral problems in children with intellectual disabilities in schools.
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