فاطمه غنائی چمن آباد

Hearing impairment is a communication disorder, the affected person is often confused and resentful by the society and causes damage to the mental health of the person; Therefore, Body psychotherapy is a scientific that includes the use of non-verbal communication through movement and combining it with neuropsychological exercises. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the effect of Body psychotherapy on extroversion and neuroticism of deaf students.

The current research is semi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design and a control group. The statistical population of the research includes all deaf female students between the ages of 13 and 20 who were covered by the Mashhad Welfare Organization. 24 people were randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups. The research tool included the Eysenck Personality Test (EPQ). The experimental group participated in the physical psychotherapy process for 3 months, 3 sessions of 90 minutes per week, and one-way covariance analysis was used to analyze the data.

Descriptive indices in the physical psychotherapy group, the score of the neurotic component after the intervention had a significant decrease compared to before (p<0.05), and this change was not significant in the control group. (p=0.077) for the comparison of neuroticism in the experimental and control groups, the obtained F value is 7.039 significant at the 0.01 level (p<0.05).

The result of the research indicated that the use of physical psychotherapy to improve neuroticism characteristics in deaf female students should be considered and used.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of Body Psychotherapy on improving the level of inhibition and attention of elementary students.

The study design was quasi-experimental with pre-test, post-test and control group. The statistical population of the study consisted of elementary students studying at four public schools (2 boy specific - 2 girl specific) in Mashhad during 2018-2019 school year. Using Convenience sampling method, 44 elementary students were selected and randomly assigned to two groups (12 boys and 10 girls in the experimental group, 11 boys and 11 girls in the control group). The experimental group received thirty-six 60-min sessions of Body Psychotherapy for three months during which the control group was placed on the waiting list. The measuring tools used in this study were computerized tests of Word-Color Stroop and Continuous Performance. Data were analyzed using MANCOVA and independent t-test.

The results showed that students in the experimental group significantly outperformed those in control group in the components of Word-Color Stroop and CPT tests (p>0.05). The findings suggest that Body Psychotherapy is an effective way to improve the level of inhibition and attention of elementary students.