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An Investigation of the Efficacy of Play Therapy with Young Children (open access)

An Investigation of the Efficacy of Play Therapy with Young Children

This study was designed to determine the effectiveness of play therapy as a method of intervention for children with a variety of emotional and behavioral problems. Specifically, the study was aimed at determining the effectiveness of play therapy in: (a) improving self-concepts of children with adjustment difficulties; (b) reducing internalizing behavior problems, such as withdrawal, somatic complaints, anxiety, and depression; (c) reducing externalizing behavioral problems such as aggression and delinquent behaviors; (d) reducing overall behavior problems, social problems, thought problems, and attention problems of children with adjustment difficulties; and (e) reducing parenting stress of parents of children who were experiencing adjustment difficulties.The experimental group consisted of 15 children who were experiencing a variety of adjustment difficulties and received play therapy once per week for 7 to 10 weeks. The control group consisted of 14 children who were experiencing a variety of adjustment difficulties and who were on a waiting list to receive intervention, and therefore, did not receive any treatment during the time of data collection. Experimental and control group children were administered the Joseph Pre-School and Primary Self-Concept Screening Test and parents of all participants completed the Child Behavior Checklist and the Parenting Stress Index at pretest and posttest …
Date: May 1999
Creator: Brandt, Marielle Aloyse
System: The UNT Digital Library
Everything and Nothing at the Same Time (open access)

Everything and Nothing at the Same Time

This paradoxically titled collection of poems explores what the blues and blindness has come to mean to the author.
Date: May 1999
Creator: Ballenger, Hank D.
System: The UNT Digital Library