Neslihan Altunsoy, Tuğba Kocabaş, Serkan Bayad, Müge Elbir, Ömer Aydemir
Validity and Reliability of the Premorbid Adjustment Scale in a Sample of Turkish Schizophrenic Patients
Alpha psychiatry
cyberbullying among children increasing every year leading serious public health problems victims suffer serious aftereffects depression suicidal ideation therefore early appropriate psychological intervention role schools emphasized study investigated effects school sandplay group therapy ssgt children affected cyberbullying study designed parallelgroup nonrandomized controlled trial study subjects 139 elementary school students mean age 1135 years standard deviation 0479 age range 1213 years residing cheonan city korea assigned intervention comparison groups intervention group received 10 sessions therapy weekly basis 40 minutes per session therapy administered control group effectiveness intervention assessed using children depression inventory suicidal ideation questionnairejunior rosenberg selfesteem scale assessment comparison group performed concurrently intervention group data analyzed using multivariate analysis variance study ssgt group showed significant decrease depression suicidal ideation compared control group sandplay group therapy sgt significant increase selfesteem confirmed ssgt mitigate negative consequences cyberbullying strengthen protective factors suggests ssgt successfully used crisis counseling