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KMID : 1094520100130020097
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Korean Journal of Play Therapy
2010 Volume.13 No. 2 p.97 ~ p.111
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Development and the Effect of the Program for Psychological Adaptation of Mothers with Pervasive Development Disorder
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Cho Kyoung-Hee
Lee Jee-Yon
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Abstract
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This research is to develop a Psychological Adjustment Training Program to relieve parenting stress and the degree of depression for mothers of children with pervasive development disorder, and to verify the effect of the program. The sample of this research is 20 mothers whose children are recently going to kindergarten for handicapped children , and 10 of them are designated as an experimental group and the other 10 as a control. In terms of experimental group, 90-minute session was performed twice a week for 8 consecutive weeks and at the same time controllable group did not receive any measure. To verify the effect of the program, both groups were tested before and after the initiation of program, collected data from the test was statistically analyzed by nonparametric test of SPSS 15.0, in terms of the difference of means from the pre test and post test. As a result, parenting stress of the experimental group who participated in the psychological adjustment training program has decreased more significantly than that of controllable group. At the same time, degree of depression in experimental group also has significantly decreased than that of controllable group who did not receive any measure. The result implies that the Psychological Adjustment Training Program used for this research is effective to relieve the parenting stress and degree of depression of mothers of children with pervasive development disorder.
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KEYWORD
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Pervasive development disorder, Parenting stress, Program development
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