Investigating the Effect of Cognitive Therapy Based on Mindfulness on the Improvement of Internalized and Externalized Disorders in Children Aged 8 to 12 Years in Gorgan City
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Mojtaba Aghili
1
,
Sedigheh Mirzaee
2
1 - Department, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Master of Psychology, Payam Noor University, Gorgan, Iran.
Keywords: Cognitive therapy based on mindfulness, internalizing and externalizing disorders, children.,
Abstract :
This research was conducted with the aim of investigating the effect of cognitive therapy based on mindfulness on the improvement of internalized and externalized disorders of children aged 8 to 12 years in Gorgan city. The effectiveness research method is pre-test-post-test with control group. The studied population were all students aged 8 to 12 years living in Gorgan city. The sample size in Stata software was determined equal to 44 samples (22 people in each group). The research tool was the Achenbach Behavioral Disorders Questionnaire. The experimental group received cognitive therapy based on mindfulness in 8 sessions of 60 minutes, but the control group did not receive any intervention until the end of the study. In order to analyze the data, descriptive indices and univariate analysis of variance were used by SPSS software. The findings showed that cognitive therapy based on mindfulness is effective in improving internalized and externalized disorders of children aged 8 to 12 years (p<0.05). The results indicate that cognitive therapy based on mindfulness leads to the reduction of internalized and externalized disorders in children aged 8 to 12 years.