A TRAINING PROGRAM ON EMOTIONAL ADJUSTMENT AND ITS SOCIAL COMMUNICATION EFFECT IN CHILDREN WITH BEHAVIORAL DISORDERS

Abstract

The present study seeks to investigate the effect of using a training program in improving the emotional adjustment and its effect in reducing the social communication disorder (pragmatic) for a sample of behaviorally disorderly children. The setting was a primary school in Rafha, Saudi Arabia. 60 students were identified as a final sample out of 90 students in many schools in Rafha province with 9.4 years as an average age using standard and validated scales. The quasi-experimental method has been used whereby these students were divided into two groups each 30 students, the experimental group, received 25 sessions from 20- 30 minutes each ،three times a week, for two months during 2019\2020. The study concluded that the program was efficient in improving the emotional adjustment (the ability to temper control, social assertiveness, mood Repair, and anxiety control), and was efficient in reducing social communication disorder (pragmatic) for a sample of behavioral disorder children. The training program could improve the emotional adjustment of the behavioral disorder children and this was significantly reflected in reducing their level of social communication disorder (pragmatic).