جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « orphan children » در نشریات گروه « روانشناسی »

Orphaned children were more susceptible to mental disorder than other children due to rearing in different developmental environments. The aim of this study was to investigate psychological profile of orphans regards to post traumatic stress disorder symptoms and performance in cognitive and emotional aspects of theory of mind. We assessed 50 orphaned children and 50 non-orphan children by the children’s impact of event scale, theory of mind test and the reading the mind in the eyes task. Logistic regression showed that intrusion experience, behavioral avoidance and difficulty in understanding false belief could significantly discriminate orphans and non-orphaned children group. In addition, there were negative association between performance in theory of mind tasks, emotion recognition and severity of three main symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder among orphans and non-orphan children. It seems post-traumatic stress disorder is one of the main mental disorder among orphaned children. Furthermore, delay in the development of cognitive and emotional aspects of theory of mind performance among orphans could influenced by post traumatic stress disorder.

Lack of parents influences on child’s growth. An orphan child is deprived of emotional relationship and does not receive the usual pattern of interaction with others. The growing statistic of these people and psychological trauma exerted on them could not be overlooked. Thus, the purpose of the research is to investigate the effectiveness of schema therapy on resilience, feeling lonely and emotional independence of orphan children.

During a quasi-experimental study with pretest posttest, 21orphans were selected from Andishe Nik Social Work Clinic by available sampling and randomly divided into two experimental (11 individuals) and control group (10 individuals). The groups were tested both at the beginning and end of the study. Then experimental group received schema therapy treatment for two months (10 60-minute sessions).

MANCOVA analysis showed that schema therapy has been effective in increasing resilience, feeling lonely and emotional independence (p<0.05).

Schema therapy could be used as a suitable intervention which affects the resilience, feeling lonely and emotional independence of orphan children.

The aim of current study was to compare the effectiveness of teaching of cognitive behavioral coping skills and emotion regulation on the reduction of hopelessness, happiness, and self-esteem in orphan children and adolescents. The method of this study was quasi experimental with control group. All orphan children and adolescents living in Ardabil welfare organization in 1392 comprised the statistical population of this study (N=83). Forty five people were selected from this society by simple random sampling. Having conducted a clinical interview, they were assigned randomly to three groups of cognitive behavioral coping skills, emotion regulation, and control. All the participants of the three groups responded to the questionnaires related to hopelessness, happiness, and self-esteem at pre- and post-test levels. Collected data were analyzed by ANCOVA test. The results showed that there were significant differences between three groups in hopelessness, happiness, and self-esteem. Results of post hog test showed that cognitive behavioral coping skills and emotion regulation training were effective in hopelessness and happiness equally. But emotion regulation training did not influence self-esteem. Giving orphan children and adolescents have difficult in Natural acquisition of behavioral and emotional skills, necessary for growth, training of Cognitive-behavioral coping skills and emotion regulation can be effective in an increased rate of decline in happiness and hopelessness of these children and adolescent.