A study on the effects of DIR/Floortime-based counseling program on emotional regulation in adolescents with ADHD symptoms
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This study aimed to examine the effects of DIR/Floortime-based counseling on emotion regulation among adolescents with ADHD symptoms at the lower secondary school level. The study employed a Single Subject Experimental Design with repeated-measures. The participants were five lower secondary school students with ADHD symptoms from a secondary school in Chiang Mai Province. The research instruments included: 1) a DIR/Floortime-based counseling program, 2) a demographic questionnaire for adolescents with ADHD symptoms, and 3) The Emotion Regulation Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents (ERQ-CA). Participants received the DIR/Floortime-based counseling intervention for 45 minutes per session, once a week, for a total of eight sessions. They were assessed before, during, and after the intervention, as well as at a one-month follow-up, resulting in a total of 6 assessments. Data were analyzed using scores obtained from the assessment instrument. The findings indicated that adolescents with ADHD symptoms demonstrated higher scores of emotion regulation after participating in the DIR/Floortime-based counseling program compared with before the intervention, and the positive effects were maintained at the one-month follow-up. Furthermore, the DIR/Floortime-based counseling approach encouraged adolescents with ADHD symptoms to use more appropriate emotion regulation strategies.
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