Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect parent group psychotherapy in treatment of disturbance /disorder for Attachment children. In this study, in order to carry out for the treatment for the mother group, two groups were set up, one for the participant group consisted of 5 pairs of mother and children and the other for non-participant group of which consisted 5 children. The children were between 3-5 years of age and diagnosed as disturbance /disorder for Attachment by psychiatrists and clinical psychologist. The results obtained were as follows: First, The score of Working Model of Child representation of the mother participant group were significantly higher than those of non-participant group after the treatment especially. The changes of openness to change, intensity of involvement, coherence, caregiving sensitivity, more developed. Second, after the treatment of mother participant group, the mother-child interaction score was improved significantly than the non-participant group especially. The score of intrusiveness, attention, sensitivity, responsiveness changed positively. Third, comparing to the two groups, in the Depression, Marital Adjustment and the Maternal stress, there were no significant differences at pre-post test Finally, disturbance /disorder for Attachment children of participant group were significantly improved of several parts of development that are Individuality, Sociality, Fine-motor movement and Gross-motor movement from DDST. And The types of attachment in participant group children changed from insecure to secure partially. In conclusion, parent group psychotherapy for disturbance /disorder for Attachment turns out to be useful improving Mothers' internal representation and mother-child interaction much higher than those of non-participant group