Play Therapy and Psychoeducational School-Based Group Interventions: A Comparison of Treatment Effectiveness. Issue 3 (3rd July 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Swank, Jacqueline M.; Cheung, Christopher; Williams, Sydney A.
• Is Part Of: Journal for specialists in group work. Volume 43:Issue 3(2018)
• Page Start: 230
• Page End: 249
• Publication Date: 2018-07-03
• Subjects: child-centered group play therapy -- child-centered play therapy -- children -- counseling -- group -- school; Group counseling -- Periodicals; Group psychotherapy -- periodicals; 616.8915205
• DOI: 10.1080/01933922.2018.1485801
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0193-3922

Abstract

Abstract : This study focused on using a single case research design (SCRD) to compare the effectiveness of a child-centered group play therapy intervention to a psychoeducational group intervention (skillstreaming), and a group that received no intervention for 6 weeks. A group of 10 young children (kindergarten and Grade 1) were randomly assigned to 1 of the 3 groups. We found that children participating in the CCGPT intervention were 4.18 times more likely to have a decrease in total problem behavior across the 6-week period compared to children in the skillstreaming group, and 1.61 times more likely than children in the wait-list group.