Filial Therapy for Children with Separation Anxiety: Effects on Anxiety Behaviors and Insecure Attachment Relationships

• Main Author: 林沛螢
• Other Authors: 張高賓
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/87224791141177994111

碩士 === 國立嘉義大學 === 輔導與諮商學系研究所 === 100 === The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of CPRT for children with separation anxiety. This study adopted the withdrawal design of the single-subject research designs. The independent variable is Child Parent Relationship Therapy, and there are two dependent variables, (1) children’s anxiety behaviors, and (2) children’s attachment relationships. The participants were two children with separation anxiety and their mothers. The researcher collected the change of the target behaviors, and analyzed the effects of the target behaviors by applying visual inspection, C statistic method, and regression effect size. The researcher also collected qualitative data through interviews and observations as social validity. The results of this study are as follows: 1. The CPRT have intervening and maintaining effects on the improvement of children’s anxiety behaviors. 2. The CPRT have intervening and maintaining effects on the improvement of children’s attachment relationships. 3. According to participants’ feedback, the benefits of the study are: comfortable study environment, full study motives, paying much attention to children, paying much attention to relationship, acquiring information, acquiring new viewpoint, hopeful, open-minded, confident of research relation, researcher’s Empathy, children’s positive feedback, and willing to put into practice in life.