TY - JOUR T1 - The Effectiveness of Floor time Play on Anxiety ‎in ‎children with Asperger disorder and burden among ‎‌ ‌their ‌mothers (a single case study) TT - اثر بخشی بازی درمانی فلورتایم بر کاهش اضطراب کودکان مبتلا به اختلال آسپرگر و بار روانی مادران آن ها: یک مطالعه مورد منفرد JF - jpenir JO - jpenir VL - 4 IS - 4 UR - http://jpen.ir/article-1-305-en.html Y1 - 2018 SP - 50 EP - 59 KW - Floor time Play KW - Anxiety KW - Asperger KW - burden KW - ‌mothers. N2 - Introduction: ‏Anxiety is one of the problems associated with Asperger's children.‎. The psychological burden of having a child with Asperger, also affects their caregivers, ‎and life with a sick member creates a bitter experience for other family members‎. The aim of this research is to investigate the influence of “Floor time Play on ‎Anxiousness ‎in children with Asperger disorder ‎and burden among ‎ their ‏mothers”‎ Methods :The study was a single-subject of AB experimental designs. The statically population of the study was all 8-11 year old children with asperger ‎disorder and their mothers in Tehran, referring to the center of autism of the Sunrise, ‎and 3 children at the age 8 to 11 were chosen. In this study, convenience sampling ‎method was used. ‎. Interventions peformed for 12 treatment sessions (90 minutes, one session per week) ‎for three month, with a follow-up period of one month subsequent to treatment ‎termination‎. The research instruments were the High-Functioning ‎‏Autism Spectrum Screening ‎Questionnaire, Spence Children’s Anxiety Scale and Family burden interview scale. ‎chart analysis was used for data analysis of this study and also the effectiveness of ‎therapy was assessed by recovery percent formula and‎ Reliable change index‏.‏ Results: The results indicated that children with asperger disorder showed improvement in ‎comparison with baseline. The overall improvement in their anxiety variables was 50/5%, ‎and the RCI was higher than 1.96 for all three children. Therefore, floortime play ‎therapy has a clinically and statistically significant effect on the reduction of anxiety in ‎children with Asperger's disorder. The results of the follow-up test showed that the effects of the intervention were still ‎ongoing after one month after the last session of the interventions‎. Also the results of the percentage of recovery (24/6%) indicated a decrease in burden, ‎but ‎this value was not clinically meaningful.‎ Conclusions: It seems that floortime play therapy has been effective in reducing the anxiety ‎of ‎children with aspergerous disorder. Therefore, it is recommended that the ‎treatment ‎of floortime play therapy as one of the treatment interventions to improve ‎anxiety in children ‎with Asperger's disorder And reduce the stresses and mental ‎problems of their mothers ‎in centers and clinics of autism. ‎ M3 ER -