Nasrin Zamani, Mehdi Tavallaei, Somaieh Kahdouei

Abstract

Playing helps children to express their needs and feeling. Childhood is one of the most important periods of life that a person's personality is based on it and the persistence of disorders during this period can be associated with significant negative consequences in the future of the child. It is necessary to identify these children and provide appropriate and effective treatment. Cognitive-behavioral play therapy is a method that has completely specific goals and methods of intervention and seems to be effective for children who are less motivated to cooperate and have been used in this research. The present study is an experimental study with a Pre-test, Post-test, and a control group and the purpose of determining the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral play therapy (ten 40-minutes sessions) on anxiety, bullying, impulsivity, and antisocial behaviors in children with reactive attachment disorder. Research instruments include Spence Children's Anxiety Scale (SCAS) and Reactive attachment disorder questionnaire (RADQ) and the statistical population is all preschool children in Yazd in 2019. The Convenience sampling method was used to select the research sample and 30 children who scored higher than the cut-off point (30) in the Reactive Attachment Disorder Questionnaire and also had the conditions to enter the test were randomly selected and were assigned in two experimental and control groups (15 people in each group). The results of statistical analysis showed that cognitive-behavioral play therapy significantly reduces the rate of anxiety and bullying, impulsivity, and antisocial behaviors in the experimental group‎.