Hasan Ali Veiskarami; Leila Mansouri; Somayeh Roshanniya
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of painting therapy on increasing meaning in life and mental health in female students with low academic achievement. The present semi experimental study included pre-test, post-test with the control group design. The statistical population ...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of painting therapy on increasing meaning in life and mental health in female students with low academic achievement. The present semi experimental study included pre-test, post-test with the control group design. The statistical population of this study consisted of all female second grade students of guidance schools in Khoramabad city in the academic year of 2015-2016. Then 30 people with low academic achevement were selected through random multi stage cluster sampling and were assigned randomly to experimental and control groups. The instruments used in this study were meaning in life (Steger & etal, 2006) and mental health questionnaires (Goldberg, 1972). The experimental group received painting therapy for eight 60-minutes sessions, two sessions in a week lasting for one month. Analysis of the data was done using descriptive (average & standard deviation) and inferential (multiple covariance analysis) tests. Experimental group showed significant increase in mening in life and mental health after being trained. Based on the result we can say that painting therapy is an important method in improving meaning in life and mental gealth of students with low academic achievement.
shahram vahedi; n s
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The Early diagnosis and intervention during the preschool years will improve your child’s chances for overcoming his or her behavioral-emotional problems. One of most common problems of behavioral visit that of People to the mental health centers is aggression. This study examined the effectiveness ...
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The Early diagnosis and intervention during the preschool years will improve your child’s chances for overcoming his or her behavioral-emotional problems. One of most common problems of behavioral visit that of People to the mental health centers is aggression. This study examined the effectiveness of painting therapy in reducing aggression of preschool children. Thus, a single-subject multiple baseline design was used. In this research, the observed or measured intervals in which a unit may be an individual or group of individuals, was used. The first phase of the project (A) is baseline and second (B) is the intervention phase. After the intervention, the follow-up observations were carried out and the results of the second search step plotted. Subjects of the research were five aggressive children from preschool centers in Tabriz city (4 boys and 1 girl). In the analysis of date charting and visual analysis was used. In the visual analysis, changes resulting from intervention on the level, trend and variability of observations were reviewed and interpreted. The results are the average of all children at baseline, intervention, and follow up and effect size observed for all children and visual analysis of the results showed the painting effect in reducing aggression in preschool children was high. Therefore, painting therapy has an impact on reducing symptoms of preschool aggression.
