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Having a child with Autistic Disorder can lead to experience unpleasant emotions in their parents. Therefore, This study aims to determine the effectiveness of reality therapy training to increase responsibility and happiness in the mothers of children with Autism disorder. This research was of a semi-experimental ...
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Having a child with Autistic Disorder can lead to experience unpleasant emotions in their parents. Therefore, This study aims to determine the effectiveness of reality therapy training to increase responsibility and happiness in the mothers of children with Autism disorder. This research was of a semi-experimental with pre-test and post-test and control group. By applying the available sampling, 31 mothers of children with Autism were selected and assigned randomly as experimental and control groups having 15 and 16 people respectively. The experimental group received group reality therapy training for seven treatment sessions (90 minutes for each session), while the control group was not exposed to any intervention. The data were collected using happiness questionnaire (Argyl) and responsibility (Gaff). The results of multivariate analysis indicated that there is significantly difference in scores of two groups in happiness and responsibility. thus, the group reality therapy training allows for a increase in the responsibility and happiness among mothers of the experimental group. According to the results obtained, group reality therapy training can be useful and applicable as the psychological therapeutic interventions for increasing happiness as well as responsibility in the mothers of children with Autism.
shahla pezeshk; janet hashemiazar; usef jalali
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The present study aimed to compare the neuropsychological function of adults with Down syndrome with and without Alzheimer disease. Research method was descriptive. Population of study was adults with Down syndrome that were been keeping in the center of disabled and mentally retarded peoples in Tehran ...
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The present study aimed to compare the neuropsychological function of adults with Down syndrome with and without Alzheimer disease. Research method was descriptive. Population of study was adults with Down syndrome that were been keeping in the center of disabled and mentally retarded peoples in Tehran on a full-time basis or were involved in rehabilitative activities on a part-time basis. Using the convenient sampling method, number of 16 adults with Alzheimer disease and number of 16 adults without Alzheimer disease were selected through dementia screening questionnaire for individuals with intellectual disabilities and then for comparing the neuropsychological function of samples, we used the bender-gestalt test and Wechsler intelligence scale for children, fourth edition. We also use the two independent samples t-test for answering the research questions. Results of bender-gestalt test indicated a significant difference between adults with Alzheimer and those without Alzheimer in terms of the frequency of errors. In other word, the frequency of errors in adults with Alzheimer was more than adults without Alzheimer. Results of Wechsler intelligence scale for children indicated no significant difference between adults with Alzheimer and those without Alzheimer in terms of the test factors such as “General ability, cognitive mastery, verbal comprehension, perceptual reasoning, working memory and information processing speed” but there was a significant difference between the two groups in the subtests of Wechsler scale, In other word, non-Alzheimer group’s performance was better than Alzheimer group in the subtests.
nastaran seiedesmseeli ghomi; farangis kazemi; shahla pezeshk
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Thepurpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of stress reductionprogram training based onmindfulness on stress levels of mothers withintellectually disabled children. Research method was quasi-experimental designwith pretest-posttest and control group. The statistical population of thisstudy ...
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Thepurpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of stress reductionprogram training based onmindfulness on stress levels of mothers withintellectually disabled children. Research method was quasi-experimental designwith pretest-posttest and control group. The statistical population of thisstudy was all the mothers of intellectually disabled preschool children ofShohadaSchool in the city of Marlikin year 2012-2013.Among these mothers, 24mothers whose stress scores were one standard deviation above the mean wereselected using simple random sampling and they were assigned randomly intoexperimental (12) and control (12) groups. The experimental group received 8sessions of stress reduction program training based on mindfulness. To collectdata,the 52-item Frederick Stress Resources Questionnaire (QRS-F) was used.Data were analyzed by ANCOVA statistical method. The results showed that theresearch hypothesis has been approved and the mothers in the experimental grouphad significantly lower stress than the mothers in the control group inposttest. It can be concluded that stress reduction program training based onmindfulness has a significant impact on reducing stress in mothers withintellectually disabled children.