The effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral play therapy on flexibility in aggressive children

Cognitive-behavioral play therapy is combination of various play therapy techniques with cognitive-behavioral model to increase desirable behaviors and reduce harmful behaviors in children. The objective of the present research is studying the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral play therapy on flexibility in aggressive children. In this research, 20 aggressive children aged 6-9 years of Tehran were selected based on CSI-4 inventory and divided to test and control groups. Tool of research was computer form of Wisconsin test that was executed in both groups after receiving 10 therapy sessions for test group in pre-test and post-test steps. The results show that cognitive-behavioral group play therapy has significant effect on decreasing wrong responses and stopping mistakes and increasing correct responses. It seems that cognitive-behavioral group play therapy increases flexibility in aggressive children.