Designing stories to create cognitive faults in the philosophy program for children and its effectiveness on reducing the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder in children with OCD symptoms in the elementary school of Yazd city

The aim of this study was to create a cognitive fault in the philosophy program for children in the form of exploratory loop. Its effect on reducing OCD symptoms in children 8 to 11 with OSD symptoms was implemented in Yazd province. In this research, 10 stories with the characteristics of Fabak stories have been made and used in the philosophy program for children. The present research project was one of the quasi-experimental projects with the experimental group and the control and evaluation group as a pre-test, intervention and post-test, and the OBQ-CV observational opinion questionnaire was used. The research data were analyzed using SPSS-16 software. The inferential statistics index, including the covariance test, was used to examine the difference between the pre-test and post-test scores and the control group and the results showed The rate of obsessive-compulsive beliefs in the post-test group of the experimental group has decreased significantly compared to the control group (p <0.01). Also, the mean of overestimation of risk, perfectionism, extreme responsibility and over-emphasis on thoughts after treatment had a significant decrease (p <0.01). As a result, the positive effectiveness of the philosophy program for children with the aim of creating a cognitive fault was confirmed.