Effectiveness of narrative therapy on decreasing aggression and increasing social skills among preschool children

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Parsa Bahmani ¹
• Majid Barzegar ²

¹ M.A graduated on General Psychology, Islamic Azad university, Marvdasht, Iran

² Psychology faculty of Islamic Azad university of Marvdasht, Fars, Iran

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to explain the effects of narrative therapy on decreasing aggression and increasing social skills among pre-school children. The research design was pre-post test with control group. And this study was done by a random assignment and pre-test, post-test. The statistical population on this study includes all of the pre-schools students of Shiraz in 2007 academic year. The sample was chosen between all pre-schools in Shiraz. Totally 24 students including 12 girls and 12 boys were randomly chosen and 12th of them were randomly assigned in experimental and control group. Collecting data was done by Frank, M Gersham (1990), and Stephen N.Elliot, social skills questionnaire and Sima Shahim (2006) aggression questionnaire. The results show that narrative therapy on experimental group was the reason of reducing aggression and increasing social skills among pre-school students .So it can be concluded that the relationship between narrative therapy and the enhancement of social skills and reducing aggression is significant.

Keywords

• narrative therapy
• social skills
• aggression

20.1001.1.22285516.1396.8.30.14.5

Main Subjects

• Psychological Models and Methods

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