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The Effectiveness of Play Therapy on Reducing Shyness and Improving Social Skills of Children of Veterans
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Sedigheh Salari   , Mohamadali Fardin , Sophia Khaneghahi |
| azadunivercity , fardinmohamadali@yahoo.com |
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Abstract: (844 Views) |
Introduction: Parents are the most important people in children's social education. Recently, much attention has been paid to the challenges of children's social relationships and the role of parents' play therapy in solving these challenges. Therefore, the purpose of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of play therapy on reducing shyness and improving social skills of children of veterans.
Methods: socio-statistics in this semi-experimental research; It includes all pre-school children of Zahedan veterans. The number of 30 students was determined by the purposeful sampling method in 2021 as the research sample, and they were replaced in two separate groups (15 students in the test group and 15 students in the control group). The data collection tool included the Shyness Scale by Cheek-Briggs (1990) and Yazdi's Social Isolation Questionnaire (2013). The method of data analysis was done using frequency, variance, and standard deviation tables, and in the inferential part, covariance test was done using SPSS21 software.
Results: The results show that the average variable of shyness (47.06 ± 38.23) and social skills (159.20 ± 123.86) Play therapy is effective in reducing shyness and increasing social skills of children of veterans (p=0.0001).
Conclusion: According to the results of statistical analysis, playing with different toys strengthens the child's imagination and creates harmony between his thoughts and behavior. Based on this, it is suggested that the Ministry of Education should take the necessary measures regarding the design, implementation and evaluation of the in-service courses to familiarize the trainers of the preschool centers for girls and boys, both governmental and non-governmental, with various play therapy methods and the implementation protocol of each.
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| Keywords: Play therapy, Shyness, Social Skills, Children of veterans, students, Semi-experimental Study |
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Type of Study: Quantitative-Research |
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Received: 2024/04/30 | Accepted: 2024/09/30 | Published: 2024/10/1
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