Thesis:

Investigating the Effect of Maikenbaum Cognitive Behavioral Play Therapy on Academic Isolation and Cognitive Skills in Elementary School Students in Neyshabur

The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of Maikenbaum's cognitive behavioral play therapy on academic isolation and cognitive skills in elementary school students in Neyshabur. The method of this study is a semi-experimental type with a pre-test-post-test design with two experimental and control groups. The statistical population of the present study is all sixth grade students in the academic year 1402-1403 in Neyshabur. Among these students, 40 people were selected by convenient sampling in two groups of 40 people for the experimental and control groups. The data collection tool is two questionnaires. The academic isolation questionnaire by Daly and Grunt (2003), the cognitive skills questionnaire by Karami (2002) were used, and Maikenbaum's cognitive behavioral play therapy intervention was carried out during 10 90-minute sessions. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. In descriptive statistics, indicators such as mean, frequency tables, graphs, standard deviation, variance were used, and in inferential statistics, tests appropriate to the data such as ANCOVA or univariate covariance tests were used with SPSS 20 software.

Keywords: Maikenbaum cognitive behavioral play therapy, academic isolation, cognitive skills