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- Title
ASPECTS OF THE ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION AT THE STUTTERING CHILD.
- Authors
SAMOCHIŞ, LUCIA; LAZĂR, S.; IFTENE, FELICIA
- Abstract
The communication disorders represent some of the biggest difficulties found at the schoolaged children. The verbal communication with the others represents an important ability, and the involuntary experiment of a deficit regarding this ability would have as effect the growth of the fear to speak. The various researches concerning the stuttering were dealing the relationship between the stuttering and the anxiety. The stuttering is often associated with strong emotional reactions, such as anxiety, magnified by negative consequences of the difficulty to speak correctly. The negative feelings experienced by the child lead to a low self conception, and could go even to depression. The aim of the study is the evaluation of the anxiety and depression at the stuttered children; the reduction of the anxious/depressed symptoms by a psychology specialist intervention. Material and method: The study group includes 15 children, with age between 8 and 16 years, from Cluj-Napoca, diagnosed with stuttering. They were applied with the scales MASC (Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children) and CDI (Child Depression Inventory), both at the introduction in the study and at its end. The psychological intervention consisted of 10 group meetings, and the psychodrama and cognitive-behavioural techniques were used during those meetings. Results: at the scale of anxiety there was noticed a significant decrease on the most subscales, at the scale of depression there was noticed a significant decrease on certain subscales at a passage of significance p <0.05. For analysis, the information was introduced in the statistic program SPSS 16.0. Conclusions: the intervention made reduced partly both the stuttering child's anxiety and the depressive symptoms. At the studied sample, the depressive symptoms are present in a less way then the anxious symptoms. The group therapy is favourable for reducing the emotional difficulties faced by the stuttering child.
- Subjects
STUTTERING in children; ANXIETY; MENTAL depression; COMMUNICATIVE disorders; ORAL communication
- Publication
Acta Medica Transilvanica, 2011, Vol 16, Issue 1, p188
- ISSN
1453-1968
- Publication type
Article