The effect of book therapy on internalizing and externalizing symptoms of deaf elementary school students of Wasal Birjand exceptional school.

Document Type : Research Article

Authors

• Mohsen Nowkarizi ¹
• Somayyeh Alemzadeh ²

¹ Member of the academic staff of the library and information department of Birjand University

² Senior expert in library and information sciences

10.22067/riis.v1i1.8207

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to measure the effect of book therapy on reducing the internalized and externalized symptoms of deaf children in the elementary school of Vasal Birjand exceptional school in the second semester of 2008-2010. The research method is quasi-experimental and applied. The research population included deaf students of age group "B" of this school. The tool for collecting information in this research was the child's behavior list and the teacher's report, which was based on Aschenbach's psychological test. At the beginning, these lists were completed about each of the subjects by their parents and teachers, then the bibliotherapy process using selected books for age group "B" along with sign language CDs of these books, was implemented in seven sessions. and then the post-test was also completed by parents and teachers.
The results of the pre-tests and post-tests were compared by the researchers using the dependent t-test in SPSS software and drawing the profiles of each subject in the pre-test and post-test with Excel software. The results showed that book therapy using selected books suitable for children was effective in reducing internalized and externalized symptoms, as well as reducing social problems and attention and thinking. Internalized symptoms include anxiety/depression problems, withdrawal/depression and physical complaints and externalized symptoms include law-breaking and aggressive behaviors. Book therapy also reduced the behavioral and social problems of these students.

Keywords

• Bibliotherapy
• Hearing-impaired children
• Internalized syndromes
• Externalized syndromes

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