The effectiveness of child-centered play therapy on behavioral problems and cognitive regulation of emotion in children with anxiety disorders

Kiani, Parisa; Aleyasin, Seyed Ali

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Kiani P, Aleyasin S A. (2024). The effectiveness of child-centered play therapy on behavioral problems and cognitive regulation of emotion in children with anxiety disorders. Rooyesh. 13(6), 139-148.
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The effectiveness of child-centered play therapy on behavioral problems and cognitive regulation of emotion in children with anxiety disorders

Parisa Kiani¹

, Seyed Ali Aleyasin ^*²

1- Master of Clinical Psychology, Department of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Ashtian Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ashtian, Iran.
2- Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Ashtian Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ashtian, Iran. , aleyasin_psychology@yahoo.com

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The present study aimed to determine the effectiveness of child-centered play therapy on behavioral problems and cognitive regulation of emotion in children with anxiety disorders. The research method was semi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design and a control group. The statistical population of the study included all children aged 6 to 9 years with symptoms of anxiety disorders in Feridoonkanar city in 1401, from which 75 children were selected by available sampling. Then, among these children, 30 children who had the highest score on the anxiety scale were randomly placed in two groups (15 people in the experimental group and 15 people in the control group). The measurement tools included Spence et al.'s Preschool Anxiety Scale (PAS, 2001), Rutter et al.'s Behavioral Problem Scale (BPS, 1967), and Gross & John Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ, 2003). The experimental group underwent the child-centered play therapy intervention of Landreth (1993) during eight 45-minute sessions twice a week. Multivariate covariance analysis was used to analyze the data. The results of multivariate covariance analysis showed that by controlling the pre-test effect, there is a significant difference between the post-test mean of behavioral problems and cognitive regulation of emotion in the two experimental and control groups at the p<0.05 level. As a result, child-centered play therapy can be used as an efficient method in improving behavioral problems and cognitive regulation of emotions in children with anxiety disorders.

Keywords: Anxiety Disorders, Behavioral Problems, Child-Centered Play Therapy, Cognitive Emotion Regulation, Children.

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Type of Article: Research | Subject: Clinical Psychology
Received: 2024/01/7 | Accepted: 2024/01/21 | ePublished: 2024/08/31