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The Effectiveness of Floor time Play on Anxiety in children with Asperger disorder and burden among their mothers (a single case study)
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Ghazaleh Rezaee Khoshkozari   , Anahita Khodabakhshi Koolaee |
| Assistant professor of counseling, Department of Psychology and Education, Faculty of Humanities, Khatam University , Tehran, Iran , a.khodabakhshid@khatam.ac.ir |
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Abstract: (7955 Views) |
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.
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| Keywords: Floor time Play, Anxiety, Asperger, burden, mothers. |
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Received: 2017/10/21 | Accepted: 2017/11/12 | Published: 2018/06/2
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