[ efficacy of developmental attachment-based play therapy on developmental trauma disorder symptoms in children from 3 to 9 years old]

The present study conducted to examine the effect of attachment based play therapy on developmental traumatic disorder [DTD] in children. This semi-experimental study with control group, conducted in 2008, in Mashhad. Fourteen kids [3-9 years], who were diagnosed as having DTD based on Vander Kolk criteria, were selected from child psychiatry clinic in Ibn-e-Sina and dr. Sheikh hospitals. Their parents permitted to involve in this study. Patients were divided to 2 groups of intervention and control groups. Mothers of children completed Yule's scale and for evaluation of children's stress parenting stress index-short form [PSI-SF] for evaluation of parents' stress. Ten sessions of play therapy were conducted for intervention groups. Then mothers in 2 groups completed the tests again. In the variables of age, sex and grade of children also in the age and education of mothers, patients in 2 groups did not have any significant differences [P>0.05]. There were not any significant differences in scores of Yule's scale, PSI-SF and parental distress at base- line between 2 groups [P=0.10, P=0.34 and P=0.58 respectively]. After play therapy these test in the intervention group was significantly different from the control group [P<0.001, P=0.01 and P=0.01 respectively]. The differences in scores of difficult child subscale between 2 groups, before and after intervention were not significant [P=0.86, P=0.14 respectively]. The differences in scores of malfunction in child-parent relation before and after treatment were significant in intervention group [P=0.01] but there were not meaningful differences in control group [P=0.52]. Attachment based developmental play therapy reduces the stress of children and their mothers

[Case-control study of anxiety and depression on parents of children with anxiety disorders]

Anxiety disorder is one of the prevalent disorders among children which could be the cause of many dysfunctions. As many researches have shown the family structure for anxiety disorders, this study is aimed at investigating the frequency of anxiety and depressive disorders in the parents of children with anxiety and comparing it with the control group. In this case-control study, the parents of 30 children which had been diagnosed as an anxiety case by child psychiatrist in Dr. Sheikh Hospital and 30 children without any psychiatric disorder with the age range of 3 to 12 were tested employing Beck Depression Inventory and Spielberger state trait anxiety inventory to evaluate the severity and frequency of depressive and anxiety disorders. The frequency of depression in patients' mothers was significantly higher than the control group [P=0.002] whereas the results among fathers showed no meaningful difference. The frequency of trait anxiety was significantly higher [P=0.004] in patients' mothers in comparison to the control group; however, this revealed no meaningful difference among fathers of the two groups. Although, the frequency of state anxiety in both fathers and mothers of the control group was a little higher than the patient's parents, this showed no significant difference. The results of this study showed that the frequency of depressive and anxiety disorder in patient's mothers was higher than the control group. Also, the findings indicated that the mentioned disorders in patients' fathers did not show any significant difference