The Effectiveness of Play Therapy Based on Parent-Child Relationship with a Filial Approach on Emotional Self-Regulation of Primary School Children with Sluggish Cognitive Tempo

Akhavan, Shiva; Abedi, Ahmad; Jabalameli, Sheida

doi:10.22054/jpe.2022.62505.2355

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

¹ PhD Student in General Psychology, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran.

² Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran.

³ Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran.

https://doi.org/10.22054/jpe.2022.62505.2355

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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Becker, S.P. (2021). Systematic Review: Assessment of Sluggish Cognitive Tempo Over the Past Decade. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 60(6), 690-709.

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Musser, E.D., Galloway-Long, H.S., Frick, P.J., Nigg, J.T. (2013). Emotion Regulation and Heterogeneity in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 52(2), 163-171.

Shields, A., Cicchetti, D. (2001). Parental Maltreatment and Emotion Dysregution as Risk Factors for Bullying and Victimization in Middle Childhood. Journal of Clinical child Psychology, 30: 349-363.

Strauss, A.Y., Kivity, Y., Huppert, J.D. (2019). Emotion Regulation Strategies in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Panic Disorder. Behavior Therapy, 50(3), 659-671.

Whalen, D.J., Sylvester, C.M., Luby, J.L. (2017). Depression and Anxiety in Preschoolers: A Review of the Past 7 Years. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 26(3), 503-522.

Woollett, N., Bandeira, M., lHatcher, A. (2020). Trauma-informed art and play therapy: Pilot study outcomes for children and mothers in domestic violence shelters in the United States and South Africa. Child Abuse & Neglect, 107, 104-109.

Volume 12, Issue 45
June 2022
Pages 193-220

The Effectiveness of Play Therapy Based on Parent-Child Relationship with a Filial Approach on Emotional Self-Regulation of Primary School Children with Sluggish Cognitive Tempo

References

References

Becker, S.P. (2021). Systematic Review: Assessment of Sluggish Cognitive Tempo Over the Past Decade. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 60(6), 690-709.

Benfer, N., Bardeen, J.R., Clauss, K. (2018). Experimental manipulation of emotion regulation self-efficacy: Effects on emotion regulation ability, perceived effort in the service of regulation, and affective reactivity. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 10: 108-114.

Daniel, S. (2019). Loops and Jazz Gaps: Engaging the Feedforward Qualities of Communicative Musicality in Play Therapy with Children with Autism. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 65, 101-105.

Musser, E.D., Galloway-Long, H.S., Frick, P.J., Nigg, J.T. (2013). Emotion Regulation and Heterogeneity in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 52(2), 163-171.

Shields, A., Cicchetti, D. (2001). Parental Maltreatment and Emotion Dysregution as Risk Factors for Bullying and Victimization in Middle Childhood. Journal of Clinical child Psychology, 30: 349-363.

Strauss, A.Y., Kivity, Y., Huppert, J.D. (2019). Emotion Regulation Strategies in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Panic Disorder. Behavior Therapy, 50(3), 659-671.

Whalen, D.J., Sylvester, C.M., Luby, J.L. (2017). Depression and Anxiety in Preschoolers: A Review of the Past 7 Years. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 26(3), 503-522.

Woollett, N., Bandeira, M., lHatcher, A. (2020). Trauma-informed art and play therapy: Pilot study outcomes for children and mothers in domestic violence shelters in the United States and South Africa. Child Abuse & Neglect, 107, 104-109.

Volume 12, Issue 45June 2022Pages 193-220

Volume 12, Issue 45
June 2022
Pages 193-220