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Jahangir Karami, Khodamorad Momeni, Fereshteh Mohammadi, Afsaneh Shahbazirad, Volume 1, Issue 3 (spring 2015)
Abstract
Introduction: The study aimed to determine the effectiveness of narrative therapy for reducing symptoms of separation anxiety disorder in primary school children was conducted in 2013 in Kermanshah.
Methods: The study was a semi-experimental design with pre-posttest design with control group.22 girls of primary school were selected based on the available sampling and assigned to the experimental and control groups, randomly. Both the pre-test and post-test using the Child Symptom Inventory, which has two forms, especially parents and teachers, were evaluated, and The data were analyzed using analysis of covariance.
Results: The results showed that narrative therapy in reducing the symptoms of separation anxiety disorder in children in the experimental group was effective (P <0/001).
Conclusion: According to the results, therapists and others who work with children can to use therapy techniques to treat anxiety disorders.
Kobra Karami, Leyla Abbasi, Fataneh Moridi, Fatemeh Falah, Zahra Bayat, Negar Pourvakhshoori, Volume 1, Issue 3 (spring 2015)
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Introduction: The growth rate in the first year of life is faster. Child developmental assessment in first year of Childs may reflect maturity problems and indicates that many of deficiencies that can be treated with the intervention so investigation on evolutionary status of these children in order to awareness of parents to treatment is essential. This study was to aimed, assess the developmental characteristics of one year old children in Khorramabad.
Methods: This study is descriptive cross-sectional study in health centers of Khorramabad and on 764 children referred to health centers. The Inclusion criteria were absence of congenital physical illness, not immatureness, having medical records in the health center and having regular visits. To monitor of child’s height and weight scales and meters were used, for assess developmental parameters standard tools and ASQ questionnaires were used.
Results: 387 (66/50%) were male and 376 (34/49%) were female.development of 82/8% were Natural, 7/9% of the total area of abnormal development and were 16/3% had at least one abnormal area. Data analysis showed that there is a statistically significant relationship between abnormal development and neonatal complications, birth weight, birth order (third and higher), maternal age, pregnancy complications (epilepsy), Maternal smoking and alcohol, family history of mental retardation and the economic status and family (p <0.05). But there is no statistically significant relationship between the sexes, type of delivery, nutrition, parent education, mother's occupation, infertility and abortion and abnormal development in different stages of the developmental disorder, (p> 0.05).
Conclusions: In this study, 16/3% of children with developmental disorders in the areas of communication, gross motor, fine motor were diagnosed. That shows particular developmental assessments of children are not doing at health centers and just weight, height and head checked it can lead to irreversible effects in adulthood.
Bita Shalani, Jahangir Karami, Khodamorad Momeni, Volume 2, Issue 4 (summer 2016)
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Introduction: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is the most common neuro-developmental disorder in childhood which leads to problems in social skills as well as family life. The purpose of present research is to investigate the role of painting therapies on improving social skills in students at primary school.
Methods: This research is based on experimental methodology, with pretest-posttest design and control group. The statistical population includes all primary school ADHD children with 7 to 11 years old in the area three of Kermanshah city which were selected 5 schools through multi-stage cluster sampling. Twenty-four students were selected as sample group and were allocated to experimental and control group equally and randomly. The intervention was performed for experimental group for 10 sessions and twice at week in 45-60 minute. The research instruments were Connors Rating Scale for teachers (CRS) and Gresham & Elliott social skills scale.
Results: In order to analyze data, statistical method of covariance was used. The result showed that social skills significantly increased in the experimental group (P<0/001). Conclusion: The results showed that art therapy can be used as an suitable method in improving social skills in children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
Kazhal Ashteh, Jahangir Karami, Fatemeh Tarighatimaram, Parisa Heidarisharaf, Volume 4, Issue 3 (spring 2018)
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Introduction: The present study aims to determine the effectiveness the learning of social skills on decrease of behavioral and mental abnormalities of male students with emotional disorder in the city of Kermanshah in 2016 and 2017.
Method: The present method is semi-experimental with the method of pretest –post test and the witness group. The statistical society of the study includes all male preliminary students of special school in the city of Kermanshah in the educational year of 2016-2017. In this research, 30 students according to their age and intelligence score were categories, so that students with similar age and intelligence score in the age range between 7 -9 were selected (IQ55-70). After randomly categorization, the students were divided into two groups including experimental and witness. 12 learning session of social skills were held twice a week on the members of the control group were place in the waiting list.
Findings: The analysis showed that the learning of social skills leads to decrease behavioral and mental abnormalities. The most important results of this research are the effectiveness of skills and their usefulness in decreasing the abnormalities.
Conclusions: thence it is concluded that learning social skills is effective in decreasing behavioral and emotional disorders of male preliminary students has been effective.
Jehangir Karami , Parisa Heidarisharaf, Fatemeh Rezaee, Roghayeh Nosrati , Manzar Abasi, Raheleh Siahkamari , Volume 5, Issue 4 (summer 2019)
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Introduction: Dyslexia refers to the disability of children in reading. Most psychologists consider dyslexia merely as a sign of a special disorder in the teaching of reading, without which they want to determine a specific cause for dyslexia, which is an important factor in lowering the confidence of these children. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the self-esteem of Kukan Dorsa in the primary school of Kermanshah in the academic year 2016-2017.
Method: In this study, descriptive-analytic design was used. The statistical population consisted of all dyslexic students who filed in the school disturbance centers during the school year 2016-2017. Sample size was calculated by Cramer formula and error rate of 5% and with confidence of 95% of 140 people. According to considering loss, 116 patients were randomly selected from among dyslexic children in the center Learning outcomes No. 2 in Kermanshah city, which consisted of 300 people, were selected. To assess the self-esteem of these children, Cooper Smith's self-esteem test was used.
Results: The results showed that the mean total self-esteem scale was 10.40 and its standard deviation was 1.47, the social self-esteem scale had a mean of 1.34 and standard deviation of 0.44 and family self-esteem scale with a mean of 2.24 and standard deviation 0.53 and the academic self-esteem scale has a mean of 2.88 and standard deviation of 0.48. Regarding the statistical analysis, there was a significant difference between total self-esteem, social self-esteem, family self-esteem and educational self-esteem in these children. All of the scales were significant at P≤0.001.
Conclusion: Considering that the children's self-esteem was lower than normal, so, by educating the self-esteem, these can be promoted to these children.
Behnaz Karami, Anahita Khodabakhshi-Koolaee, Hassan Heidari, Hossein Davoodi, Volume 9, Issue 4 (summer 2023)
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Introduction: Mothers with disabled children have problems with their sleep quality. This research was conducted with the aim of Comparing the Effectiveness of Solution Focused Narrative Therapeutic Approach (SFNT) and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) on Sleep Quality in Mothers of Male children with Gross Motor Disabilities.
Methods: The current research was semi-experimental with a pre-test and post-test design with experimental and control groups. The statistical population of the research included all mothers with Gross Motor disabled children that referred to Movafaghit Counseling Center in Tehran in the year 2022, of which there were 45 mothers who met the criteria for entering the study, were selected and randomly assigned to three groups (two experimental groups(Solution Focused Narrative Therapeutic Approach (SFNT=15) and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR=15) and one control group=15). The data was collected by Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). The data were analyzed through Multiple Analysis of Variance and LSD post hoc test and with SPSS-26 statistical software.
Results: The results indicated that in the post-test phase, there is a statistically significant difference between the average score of quality of sleep in the three groups (P<0.05). However, the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) (17.53 ±1.47; P<0.05) compared to the Solution Focused Narrative Therapeutic Approach (SFNT) (13,53 ±1.07; P<0.05) had a greater effect on increasing the quality of sleep.
Conclusion: The results showed that both therapies can lead to an increase in the quality of mothers' sleep. However, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) had a greater effect on sleep quality compared to Solution Focused Narrative Therapeutic Approach (SFNT). Psychological interventions can be useful for caring for the mother and her child.
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