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parenting training concurrently with their children
receiving play therapy, a significant decrease in parenting
stress may have likely occurred. One parent of a child in
the experimental group shared her assessment of play
therapy's contribution to her child's social and emotional
adjustment, as witnessed at home and in school. She
believed the observed changes in behaviors alone helped her
to more easily accept her child:
Paul is less disobedient and much less manipulative
since we started him in play therapy. So, I think I am
beginning to notice some of his 'better traits'; and
the overall level of stress in our home has noticeably
decreased.
An important observation is the fact that posttests
were administered during the month of December. Several
parents gave verbal reports to therapists about feeling
very stressed around the Holidays with the demands of
holiday shopping, preparation for out-of-town guests, and
demands of their children's schools with the semester
coming to an end. Despite such reports of having
"additional" stressors, results of the analysis still
showed a considerable decline in the level of parenting
stress in parents of experimental group children after78
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Brandt, Marielle Aloyse. An Investigation of the Efficacy of Play Therapy with Young Children, dissertation, May 1999; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2184/m1/85/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .