Background: Sexual abuse and harassment are among the major threats to labor children, especially girls, which can be associated with anxiety and loneliness. The current study aimed to investigate the effect of Gestalt play therapy on anxiety and loneliness in Afghan female labor children with sexual abuse histories. Methods: This was a Single Case Research Design (SCRD) study of the AB model....

The present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of child-centred play therapy on the moral intelligence and bullying of primary school students. The statistical population studied was all primary school students in Shahriar city. The sampling method was available and a counselling centre called the "Hal Khoob Andisheh” Centre was selected. During the first four months of 2019, ...

This longitudinal study investigated prospective links between social isolation and adjustment problems among 166 (77 girls, 89 boys) Finnish children ages 7 to 9. Peer nominations for social engagement and self-reports of internalizing and externalizing problems were collected in the spring of the 1st and 2nd grade. Friendship moderated prospective associations between peer and adjustment vari...

Using a prospective longitudinal design, we examined internalizing problems and perceptions of control in a community sample of 785 children, 59 of whom had been maltreated. Children's internalizing problems and perceptions of control were measured via self-report at annual assessments in third grade through seventh grade (modal ages 9-13 years). Children's experiences of multiple types of malt...

objective: the present research was conducted to study the effect of play therapy on reducing behavioral problems of children with oppositional defiant disorder. method: using multistage cluster sampling, regions 6, 7, and 8 in tehran were selected. among kindergartens of these areas, 3 kindergartens which were supported by the welfare organization were randomly selected. of all the pre-school ...

Despite being a core characteristic of anxiety disorders, little data have been reported on somatic symptoms (SSs) in youth with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Eighty-five children and adolescents with OCD were administered the Children’s Yale Brown ObsessiveCompulsive Scale and completed the Children’s Depression Inventory and Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children. Their parents co...

Attention control plays an important role in the development of internalizing symptoms in children. We explored the degree to which infants' genetic and environmentally based risk moderated the link between attention control and internalizing problems during toddlerhood. These associations were examined within a prospective adoption design, enabling the disentanglement of genetic and environmen...

Despite evidence for the associations of positive affect to prosocial behaviors and internalizing problems, relatively little is known about the underlying etiology. The sample comprised over 300 twin pairs at age 3. Positive affect, prosocial behaviors, and internalizing problems were assessed using the Toddler Behavior Assessment Questionnaire (Goldsmith, 1996), the Revised Rutter Parent Scal...

This study investigates how temperament factors are linked to internalizing and externalizing problems in a Dutch population sample of preadolescents (N = 2230). Internalizing and externalizing problems were assessed by the Child Behavior Checklist and the Youth Self-Report and temperament was evaluated by the parent-version of the Revised Early Adolescent Temperament Questionnaire. Temperament...