Therapeutic Group Therapy to Mother’s Knowledge and Ability About Personality and Psychosocial Development of Preschool–Age Children

Abstract

. Mother is the first education for children to provide stimulation for preschool to prevent developmental disorder. Therapeutic group therapy is one of the alternatives that give knowledge to mothers in stimulating development, according to the age of the child. The study aimed to explain the influence of therapeutic group therapy on the knowledge and capability of mothers to stimulate the development of personality and psychosocial of preschool age. The design was "Quasi experiment pre-post test control group" with therapeutic Group therapy intervention for children of 3-4 years old. The results about the knowledge in the personality aspect acquired 0.760 which means there is no influence and the psychosocial aspect obtained 0.000 which means no influence. With the ability of the mother was acquired the personality aspects acquired 0.660 and psychosocial aspects of 0.568 which means there is no therapeutic influence of the group therapy on the ability of mothers in stimulating.