Movie Therapy To Developing Prosocial Behavior of Childhoods

MOVIE THERAPY TO DEVELOPING PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOR OF CHILDHOODS. The phase of human life was beginning from the prenatal period and will end in late adulthood. Childhoods is critical age or golden age. In this phase childs tend to be selfish and far form prosocial behavior. This was need to be given intervention. One of intervention than can given through movie therapy. This article aim to describe whether movie therapy can develop prosocial behavior of childhoods. This research used quantitative research with experiment method. Samples in this research was 17 students. Instrument of this research was used prosocial behavior scale. Data were analyzed by sign test. The result shown that movie therapy was able to develop childhoods prosocial behavior. Implications of this findings in teacher and especially school counselors must to try this method to help childhoods with the lack of prosocial behavior. So, happy watching!

The Effect of Group Movie Therapy on the Activities of Daily Living Among the Older Adults

Background: The daily living activities are among the essential components of life and reflect an important aspect of functional independence in older adults. This study aimed to determine the effect of Group Movie Therapy (GMT) on the Activities of Daily Living (ADL) in older adults. Methods: A randomized clinical trial was conducted on 48 older adults referred to Urban Comprehensive Health Service Centers of Kashan City, Iran. The study subjects were enrolled by a convenience sampling method and were randomly assigned to the intervention (n=24) and control (n=24) groups. GMT was performed in 6 weekly sessions. The Lawton’s ADL Scale was used for data collection. The obtained data were analyzed by the Chi-Squared test, Fisher’s Exact test, and Independent Samples t-test using SPSS. Results: There was no significant difference in the mean scores of Basic Activities of Daily Living (BADL) and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) before the intervention between the study groups. A significant difference was found in the mean scores of IADL after the intervention between the study groups (P=0.001); however, there was no significant difference in the BADL values of the groups after the intervention. Conclusion: GMT is a non-invasive, low-cost, and non-risky way to improve the elderly’s autonomy in performing IADL. Thus, GMT is recommended as a method of behavior therapy.

…And…Action!: Using Cinema and Film Clips in Partial Care/day Hospital Groups - Psychiatric Rehabilitation Settings

Entertainment - education - empowerment through transactional analysis principles.St. Vincent Hospital, Erie, Pennsylvania, intensive outpatient program experience: September 2005 - October 2007.Three e’s in psycho-educational and open-ended group settings.Medication for response - remission - recovery stages of behavioral health / mental illness.Group movie therapy approach for rehabilitation stage [handling anger, alleviating anxiety, uplifting depression, formulating problem solving, improving judgment, helping to forgive and forgiven, experiencing with sense of humor, easing up suspicion and mistrust, promoting love and compassion, teaching assertive communication and relationship, overviewing prioritization, quieting down these trigger mechanisms in decreasing the morbidity of psychiatric syndromes].