Effect of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on Reduction Social and Emotional Maladjustment of Physically Abused Children: A Clinical Trial

Farnia, Vahid; Tatari, Faezeh; Salemi, Safora; Kazemi, Ashraf; Alikhani, Mostafa; Golshani, Senobar; Hokari, Sara

doi:10.22038/ijp.2017.23549.1980

Effect of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on Reduction Social and Emotional Maladjustment of Physically Abused Children: A Clinical Trial

Authors

Vahid Farnia ¹

Faezeh Tatari ¹

Safora Salemi ¹

Ashraf Kazemi ²

Mostafa Alikhani ¹

Senobar Golshani ¹

Sara Hokari ¹

¹ Substance Abuse Prevention Research Center, Psychiatry Department, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran.

² Reproductive Health Department, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Isfahan University of Medical Science Isfahan, Iran.

10.22038/ijp.2017.23549.1980

Abstract

One of the most important and destructive forms of child abuse is the physical abuse which can lead to the maladjustment among abused children; the aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of trauma focused cognitive-behavioral therapy on reduction social and emotional maladjustment of physically abused children.
Materials and Methods
This study was a randomized controlled clinical trial. A number of 40 abused boys, who study in the elementary schools in Kermanshah- Iran, were selected by random cluster method, and randomly divided in intervention and control groups.Before and after Trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF.CBT), the Sinha and Singh adjustment questionnaire were used to assess the level of social and emotional maladjustment. In the intervention group, trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy was held in ten one-hour sessions.
Results
The results showed that after the intervention, the mean of social and emotional maladjustment was decreased significantly in the intervention group (P <0.001), while in the control group the mean of social and emotional maladjustment were not significantly different between pre-test and post-test.
Conclusion
At current study, results showed that TF.CBT reduced the social and emotional maladjustment among physically abused children.

Keywords

Child abuse

Cognition

Emotional maladjustment

Social maladjustment