The Effects of Cognitive Behavior Counseling Program on Compassion Fatigue, Secondary Trauma and Burnout in Caregivers of Children with Intellectual Disabilities in the Home for Protection and Development for Persons with Disabilities
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Objective: To study the effects of cognitive behavior counseling program on compassion fatigue, secondary trauma and burnout in caregivers of children with intellectual disabilities in the Home for Protection and Development for Persons with Disabilities by comparing between the experimental group and the control group.
Methods: The sample group is caregivers of children with intellectual disabilities in the Home for Protection and Development for Persons with Disabilities. 16 caregivers with the lowest scores on the Compassion fatigue measurement were selected and divided equally into the experimental group and the control group, with 8 caregivers per group. The experimental group participated in the Cognitive behavior counseling program for 6 sessions, each session lasting 45 - 75 minutes, once a week. The compassion fatigue measurement was administered before and after the experiment and data was analyzed using the Man-Whitney U test.
Results: Caregivers of children with intellectual disabilities in the Home for Protection and Development for Persons with Disabilities who had participated in the Cognitive behavior counseling program scored lower on compassion fatigue and secondary trauma than caregivers of children with intellectual disabilities who had not participated in the program, at the .05 statistical significance. Caregivers of children with intellectual disabilities in the Home for Protection and Development for Persons with Disabilities who had participated in the program scored lower on Burnout than caregivers of children with intellectual disabilities who had not participated in the program but not at the .05 statistical significance.
Conclusion: Cognitive behavior counseling program can help reduce Compassion Fatigue, Secondary Trauma and Burnout in Caregivers of children with intellectual disabilities in the Home for Protection and Development for Persons with Disabilities.
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