Effectiveness of floor time play therapy on the oppositional defiant and hyperactivity disorders on reducing of preschool children

Misbehaviors of childhood are important. Ignoring these misbehaviors and not solving them can cause serious problems in adulthood. This research to aim was conducted study the effectiveness of Floor time play therapy on the oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) and hyperactivity reducing of preschool children, in a semi- experimental design with a pretest and posttest, and control group. Thirty of the children with ODD and hyperactivity in Neyshabur were selected using purposeful sampling method from preschools of Gole Bita, Seteregan Pooya, Parnian day cares. The experimental group participants received 13 sessions of the Floor time play therapy three days a week and the control group not participants received any therapy. The data were collected using the Child Symptoms Inventory-Fourth Edition (CSI-4), and were analyzed using analysis of covariance analysis of statistical menthod. The findings indicated that the Floor time play therapy is effective in reducing the oppositional defiant disorder and hyperactivity of preschooler children. According to findings, it can be concluded that the Floor time play therapy leads to improvement of the preschooler children with oppositional defiant and hyperactivity disorder.