The Effectiveness of attachment-based play therapy on alexithymia of children and their mother’s parental self-efficacy in divorced family in Tehran in covid-19 pandemic

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 PhD student in counselling, department of educational sciences, Roudehen Branch, Islamic Azad university, Rudehen, Iran.

2 department of educational sciences, Roudehen Branch, Islamic Azad university, Rudehen, Iran.

Abstract

Introduction
Traumatic events such as divorce play an important role in causing alexithymia in children and parental self-efficacy. Attachment-based play therapy focuses simultaneously on the child's emotions and parental effectiveness. Aims: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of attachment-based play therapy on alexithymia of children and their mother’s parental self-efficacy in divorced family in Tehran in covid-19 pandemic.
Method
The present study is a quasi-experimental design with pretest, posttest, follow-up group. The statistical population of this study was mothers and their children in divorced families in Tehran in 1400 who responded positively to the invitation for cooperation in the present study in virtual networks. A total of 48 sample (24 children and 24 mothers) were selected by convenience sampling and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The experimental groups received 10 sessions of attachment-based play therapy training but the control group did not receive any intervention. The collected data were analyzed using ANOVA with repeated measure.
Results
The results showed that attachment-based play therapy improved emotional malaise and its components in children and increased their mothers' parenting self-efficacy (P

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