Thesis:

The effectiveness of teaching self-care skills on social adjustment and school phobia of elementary school children

The present study was conducted with the aim of teaching the effectiveness of self-care skills on social adjustment and school phobia of elementary school children. This research was a semi-experimental type of research with pre-test-post-test and control group. The statistical population of this research included girl elementary schools in Shirvan city, and 40 of them were selected by simple random sampling and randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups. After the pre-test, the experimental group received the self-care skills training program during 10 sessions, and then the post-test was performed. The data needed for the research were collected using Dokhanchi's social adjustment questionnaires (1377) and Phillips' school phobia questionnaire (1978). The resulting data were analyzed using SPSS-24 software and analysis of covariance test. The findings showed that self-care skills training led to an increase in social adaptation and a decrease in school phobia in the experimental group members in the post-test stage, compared to the control group (P?0.01). Based on the findings, it can be said that teaching self-care skills can be considered as a suitable educational approach to improve the psycho-social status of elementary school children and help them face the challenges of entering The school helped.

Keywords: self-care skills, social adaptation, school phobia,elementary school.