نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
عنوان مقاله English
نویسندگان English
Introduction
The world witnesses addiction crisis along with atomic bomb, environmental degradation and poverty. One of the most common problems in most of the addict clients is low self-esteem. Self-esteem increases flexibility against changes and reinforces positive attitudes in order to improve sense of self-sufficiency. The researches about addiction and its non-drug treatment strategies, specially increasing
self-esteem, is a very important issue. The present study aimed to assess the effect of family-centered problem solving teaching method upon the self esteem in drug-dependent clients.
Materials and Methods
This research was an experimental, two-group pretest-posttest design. After approval of research tools' validity and reliability, 60 addictive clients were randomly divided into 2 tests and one 30-person control group. The participants completed the questionnaires before and after the intervention. The test group received family-centered problem solving teaching method in 8 45-minute sessions for 2 months in additional to common treatment.
Results
Family-centered problem solving teaching method led to statistically significant increase in test group’s self-esteem. Self-esteem scores rate in test group was 4.5 times more than control group.
Conclusion
Applying the family-centered problem solving teaching method can be useful in improving and completing the treatment process of clients’ addiction quitting in these clinics as a non-drug method.
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