Abstract
A non-optimal growth might affect the mental development of children. Mental development disorder’s children around the world were classified as high. To prevent that situation it was required a consant stimulation from the mother. Providing stimulation was supported by mother's knowledge about children growth and development so that stimulation could be given according to the growth stage. Therapeutic group therapy was one of the altematives that provide knowledge to the mother in doing a developmental stimulation according to the children's age. The purpose of this research was to determine the effect of therapeutic group therapy on rnother’s knowledge in providing a cognitive and psychosocial developmental stimulation of preschool-age children. This research used "Quasi-experiment pre-post test control group” with therapeutic Group Therapy intervention of preschool-age children (3-4 years). The result of this research obtained that the cognitive aspect of mother's knowledge was 0,070 (p value>0,05) which implied that there was no difference between intervention and control group. Whereas in the psychosocial aspect it was found that knowledge of mother was 0,460 (p value> 0,05) which meant that there was no difference between intervention and control group. With the providing of this therapy, it was expected to improve the development of preschoolers. especially on the cognitive and psychosocial aspects.
Highlights
Preschoolers (3-6 years old) is a critical period that has a profound effect concerning the success of the growth and development process that must be accomplished by adults (Shoshani et al, 2017)
Quasi-experimental pre-post test control group was used as a research design with an intervention of Therapeutic Group Therapy on preschoolers
Based on the result of the statistical test, mother's knowledge in psychosocial aspect was found that p-value
Summary
Preschoolers (3-6 years old) is a critical period that has a profound effect concerning the success of the growth and development process that must be accomplished by adults (Shoshani et al, 2017). This growth can be observed in seven aspects; motoric, cognitive, language, emotional, personality, religious and moral character as well as psychosocial. Objectives that must be restrained will bring about a sense of guilt or sin (Xing et al, 2017) This psychosocial aspect will influence other aspects of development in children. The prevalence of children's mental development disorder in Indonesia tends to increase in the last 6 years (Cameron et al, 2017)
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