RT - Journal Article T1 - Effectiveness of Cognitive-Behavioral Play Therapy on Reforming the Social Maladjustment of Female Students with Intellectual Disabilities JF - SEO YR - 2015 JO - SEO VO - 3 IS - 131 UR - http://exceptionaleducation.ir/article-1-354-en.html SP - 21 EP - 30 K1 - Group play therapy K1 - Cognitive-behavioral approach K1 - Social maladjustment K1 - Adolescents with intellectual disabilities AB - Background: The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral group play therapy on reformation of the social maladjustment on female students with intellectual disabilities (ID). Method: The present study, is an experimental study design with pre-test and post-test, and with experimental and control groups. Population of this study includes all girls with mental retardation with ID (8-15 years), who attending in the special schools in the Kermanshah province. Among this population 32 students were selected as sample group. After evaluation, 20 people were diagnosed 2 Standard deviation higher than average deviation of Rutter test. These people were matched in two 10 groups, experimental and control groups. The experimental group received eleven sessions of cognitive-behavioral group play therapy and control group were placed in the waiting list. Research instruments were Rutter's behavior questionnaire. The analysis based on descriptive statistics, covariance analysis show that cognitive-behavioral group play therapy is caused to reduced social maladjustment with ID and to increased their social interactions. Results: The most important results of this study are effectiveness of group play therapy, usefulness of the cognitive - behavioral approach on reforming the social maladjustment and being equally useful results in play therapy for children with different IQ levels. Conclusion: It can be argued those cognitive-behavioral group play therapies can reform social maladjustment of female students with ID. LA eng UL http://exceptionaleducation.ir/article-1-354-en.html M3 ER -