Nonsocial Play, Social Skills, and Problem Behavior in Kindergarten Children

Effectiveness puppet play therapy on adaptive behavior and social skills in boy children with intellectual disability

Background: Mentally retarded influences social skills and adaptive behavior in children. That leads to social and communication impairment and adjusting social problem. Therefore, this research investigates the influence of puppet play therapy on adaptive behavior and social skills in male children with mentally retarded. Methods: This study is a quasi-experimental study with pre and post-tes...

The Effect of Group Play Therapy on Aggressive Behaviors and Social Skills in Preschool Children

Background and Purpose: Aggressive behavior is the most frequent behavioral problem in the preschool children. Numerous factors play a role in this context, including the lack of social skills. In this regard, play is considered as one of the most efficient methods in reducing children's externalizing behavior problems and improving their communicative and social skills. Therefore, the present ...

Relations among motor, social, and cognitive skills in pre-kindergarten children with developmental disabilities.

Despite the comorbidity between motor difficulties and certain disabilities, limited research has examined links between early motor, cognitive, and social skills in preschool-aged children with developmental disabilities. The present study examined the relative contributions of gross motor and fine motor skills to the prediction of improvements in children's cognitive and social skills among 2...

The concept of task orientation in the analysis of play behavior of children entering kindergarten.

Effectiveness of Gestalt Group Play Therapy to Aggression and Social skills of Children Sexual Abused in the Child labor's Group

Introduction; capitals and cities of many developing countries are the place where children live and work. Street life is accompanied by stress and dangers. One of the biggest dangers is sexual abuse. Antisocial behavior and physical aggression with fear and resentment, are the perpetual effects of child sexual abuse. Method: the present research is a semi-experimental and experimental research...