Shima Salehi; Ahmad Barjaali; Ali Zadeh Mohammadi
Abstract
IntroductionOne of the serious harms that threaten developing societies, including Iran, is the growing number of labor children who, for various reasons, spend part or all of their time on the streets, which is an unsafe and stressful environment for children. There are many children who are forced ...
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IntroductionOne of the serious harms that threaten developing societies, including Iran, is the growing number of labor children who, for various reasons, spend part or all of their time on the streets, which is an unsafe and stressful environment for children. There are many children who are forced to work in inappropriate environments due to not having a good caregiver or having bad caregiver (Hosseini, 2005; Fatima, 2017). During development, children and adolescents experience a wide range of anxieties (Ghorban Shiroodi, 2014), and as labor children live in unhealthy environments, they are exposed to many mental and physical disorders (Ahmadi Tabar, Jafari, & Shafiei, 2020). Anxiety is a cause of disability in children and not only causes chronic fatigue and other physical discomforts but also disturb their relationships with peers and family (Kidwell, Nelson, & Van Dyk, 2015). Although in recent years, various methods have been used to treat anxiety in children, art therapy is accepted today as one of the most effective methods of treatment. One of these art programs is play (Holmwood, 2017). Drama therapy is group therapy and active and experiential therapy (Berger, 2019) that uses a combination of various theatrical techniques such as role-play, pantomime, puppetry, improvisation, and other methods (Leather & Kewley, 2019).
