Effectiveness of therapeutic storytelling on resilience andcognitive emotion regulation children with visual impairment

To deal with the problems caused by visual impairments such as stress,frustration and other psychological problems and social and individual adjustment, cognitive emotionregulation is needed.Therefore, the aim of the present study was to investigate the effectivness of storytherapy training on the cognitive emotion regulation of blind students.

This research was a quasi-experimental method with pre-test and post-test with experimentaland control groups. The statistical population of the present study included blind students of the blindschool in Tehran in 2019-2020 Thirty eligible individuals were selected by purposive sampling method andrandomly assigned to the control group (n = 15) and the experimental group (n = 15). The experimentalgroup received 10 sessions of story therapy as a group and the control group did not receive any intervention.In this study, the Connor and Davidson Resilience Scale (2003) and the Garnfsky & Craig (2006) cognitiveemotion regulation were used to collect data. SPSS 20 software was used to analyze the data. Multivariateanalysis of covariance was used to analyze the research data. Probability values less than 0.05 wereconsidered statistically significant.

The results of research data showed that story therapy is effective in increasing resiliency (total),individual competence, trust in individual instincts and tolerance of negative emotions, acceptance andchange in relationships, control, spiritual effects (p <0.05). Also, the results of the study showed that storytherapy in reducing self-blame, rumination, monitoring,catastrophizing and blaming others and in increasingcognitive emotion regulation (total) positive re-attention, focused on planning, review and reassessmentwas positively effective (p <0.05).

Based on the findings, it can be said that story therapy is an effective method in improvingresiliency and in improving cognitive emotion on blind students.