Background & Aims: The present research was conducted to study the effect of cognitive- behavioral play therapy on Behavioral Problems of disobedient students.  Materials & Methods: This research was experimental, and a pre-test, post-test, follow-up with control group design were applied. By using multistage sampling, 30 third-grade students who met DSM-IV criteria for oppositional defiant ...

Introduction: Considering the high statistics of children with autism disorder and the many psychological problems of this group, intervention is necessary to reduce their psychological problems. As a result, the current research was conducted with the aim of determining the effectiveness of play therapy based on cognitive behavioral approach on social anxiety and self-harm behaviors in childre...

Background and Purpose: Most pre-school children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) lack the appropriate social skills and face essential problems in being adapted to different environments and making friendships. Some experts believe that play therapy based on cognitive-behavioral model can help the children with ADHD to acquire social skills and reduce their behavioral probl...

The psychologists for reducing child behavioral problems have suggested many different methods. Some of these methods have focused on child, some on parents and the others on educational environments. The most prevalent way for changing the child behaviors has been play therapy.In the last decades, play therapy has been focused more on the therapist-child relationship, whereas some methods have...

The main purpose of the present study was to examine the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral play therapy on aggressive behavioures of a group of 8-11 year old boys with conduct disorder. the sample of the study consisted of 24 boys aged 8-11 years selected among 75 who were living in well-being governmental centers in Tehran. They were Selected through ,usig child sandrom inventory (CSI-4)a...