The effectiveness of play therapy on the aggressive behavior of children with ADHD

Samaneh Panahian Amiri; Kolsoum Akbar Nataj; Mohammadkazem Fakhri

doi:10.61838/kman.aftj.3.3.17

Authors

Samaneh Panahian Amiri PhD Student, Department of Psychology, Sari Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sari, Iran.

Kolsoum Akbar Nataj * Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Islamic Azad University, Chalous Branch, Chalous, Iran. k.akbarnataj@iausari.ac.ir

Mohammadkazem Fakhri Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Sari Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sari, Iran.

https://doi.org/10.61838/kman.aftj.3.3.17

Keywords:

play therapy, aggressive behavior, children, ADHD.

Abstract

Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of play therapy on the aggressive behavior of children with ADHD. Methods: The statistical population of this study includes all children with confrontational disobedience disorder in Babol in 2019, from which 60 people were purposefully selected and using a random method in two groups of play therapy and control group, each group was assigned 30 people. Data were obtained using a child behavioral problems questionnaire in three time periods: pre-test, post-test and follow-up. Play therapy was performed in ten sessions for 2 hours weekly for the experimental group. Analysis of variance with repeated measures and SPSS software were used to analyze the data. Results: The results showed that there was a significant difference between the effectiveness of play therapy on improving aggressive behavior (F=38.86, p<0.001) in children with ADHD. Conclusion: The study showed that play therapy reduced the aggressive behavior of children with ADHD and this treatment can be used to improve the aggressive behavior of children with ADHD.