The present study was to explore the effects of Interpersonal Cognitive Problem-Solving Skill Training on depressive level and interpersonal relationship dispositions in the depressed children. This program improves consideration ability that children...
The present study was to explore the effects of Interpersonal Cognitive Problem-Solving Skill Training on depressive level and interpersonal relationship dispositions in the depressed children. This program improves consideration ability that children can solve a problem which is occurred between the interpersonal relations. The subjects of this study were 617 fourth and fifth grade(308 of male, 302 of female) children from the three different elementary schools in Kunsan area. The instruments used for this study were CDI(Children's Depression Inventory) and Interpersonal Relations Dispositions Scale. This study was analyzed the relationship between the depression and the interpersonal relations dispositions through this survey. They were selected among those subjects who get more than 20 points in CDI as a depression tendency children. And they assigned a treatment group (n=10) and a control group(n = 10) for seeking the effects of the interpersonal cognitive problem-solving skill training. The treatment group had progressed 12 sessions interpersonal cognitive problem-solving skill training during 6 weeks(two times a week). To examine the effects of the program, each participant had administered the scales and readministered after 4 weeks. As a result of this study, the children who is more in the dismals have a negative interpersonal relations such as dependent/irresponsible, non-sympathetic/non-receptive, unsocial/unfriendly, hostile/distrust. And Results showed that the interpersonal cognitive problem-solving skill training had effects on decreasing self-humiliation and depressive emotion, increasing social/friendly, flaunt/narcissism and positive dispositions.