Measuring the Spirituality in Group Addiction Counseling Using Sandtray Therapy

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10.2991/assehr.k.200824.156How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Addiction counseling, sandtray therapy, spirituality

Abstract

The element of spirituality plays an important role in addiction counseling and recovery of an addict. The purpose of this study was to examine the differences on spirituality level before and after intervention using sandtray therapy. This study was a quasi-experimental repeated-measure design utilizing the Daily Spiritual Experience Scale (DSES). A total of 32 recovering adolescent addicts were involved in six sessions of group counseling at a government-linked drug treatment and rehabilitation facility in Malaysia. The result shows that there was a significant difference in the mean scores for pre- and post-tests. However, there was no significant difference between pre-test and post-test after having the group counseling sandtray intervention (t = -0.538, p <0.05). The discussion of findings, study implication and future direction were also discussed. This study proposes to involve the control group in a follow-up study to examine the differences on the element of spirituality between control group and treatment group.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Muhammad Farhan Mahmud
AU  - Salleh Amat
AU  - Ku Suhaila Ku Johari
AU  - Mohamad Isa Amat
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/08/25
TI  - Measuring the Spirituality in Group Addiction Counseling Using Sandtray Therapy
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st Progress in Social Science, Humanities and Education Research Symposium (PSSHERS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 694
EP  - 697
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200824.156
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200824.156
ID  - Mahmud2020
ER  -