This study aims to examine the effect of the Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy(MBCT) program on the reduction of the stress responses of the handicapped children's mothers.
The subjects of this study are the mothers of the handicapped children of t...
This study aims to examine the effect of the Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy(MBCT) program on the reduction of the stress responses of the handicapped children's mothers.
The subjects of this study are the mothers of the handicapped children of the therapy center for the handicapped children in the ooo Community Welfare Center in Busan. Six of the mothers who were participating the Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy program constituted the experimental group, and eight others under the same conditions constituted the control group. The Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy program was conducted for the experimental group about 60~90 minutes once a week for 8 weeks, and no measures were taken for the control group.
The Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy is a program which Segal, Williams, and Teasdale(2002) made to prevent the return of depression by integrating the cognitive therapy and mindfulness and the contents of the program were restructured in consideration of the characteristics and requests of the handicapped children's mothers. The tools used to measure the effect of the Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy program in this study were Beck Depression Inventory, Aggression Questionnaire Korea-version, and Symptom Checklist-90-Revision, and ANCOVA was conducted with the pretest scores of the experimental group to which mindfulness was applied and those of the control group to which no mindfulness was applied as Covariates.
The findings of this study are summed up as follows:
First, the analysis of the hypothesis that the Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy program will reduce the depression which is one of the stress responses of the handicapped children's mothers has shown that the scores of Beck Depression Inventory have no statistically significant differences. But the individual changes of the scores of BDI have shown that 50% of the experimental group show the reduction of BDI and can be said to have a propensity to the reduction of depression.
Second, the analysis of the hypothesis that the Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy program will reduce the aggression which is one of the stress responses has shown statistically significant differences in the hostility, a subscale of Aggression Questionnaire Korea-version, and no significant differences in other subscales except the total scores and hostility. But the individual changes of the scores of Aggression Questionnaire Korea-version have shown 50% of the experimental show the reduction of the aggression scale and can be said to have a propensity to the reduction of aggression.
Third, the analysis of the hypothesis that the Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy program will reduce the physical and psychological symptoms which belong to the stress responses of the handicapped children's mothers has shown a statistically significant reduction of the scores of SCL-90-R. That is, the effect of the Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy has been verified by reducing the physical and psychological symptoms which belong to the stress responses.
It can be said that the examination of the findings of this study suggests that the Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy program can be used to reduce the stress responses of the handicapped children's children and that it is significant in that it is the first attempt in our country.