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Abstract:
School-based Filial Therapy (SBFT), a mental health intervention for primary school children living and remote locations. The SBFT pilot was implemented in three rural primary schools in remote and regional New South Wales, Australia, using a pretest-posttest control group design to investigate the impact of 10-sessions of Filial Therapy with a paraprofessional. Target issues were frequency and severity of school behaviour incidents, attendance, academic effort and performance. Participants were 37 children in the experimental group and 22 children in a control group. An independent samples t-test was conducted with bootstrapping. Statistically significant differences were found between the experimental and control groups in the areas of executive managed behaviour (M?=?3.286, SD?=?3.161; t (48)?=??3.5, p?=?.045, two-tailed, BCa 95% CI [?8.529, .642]), student attendance (M?=?92.989, SD?=?6.992; t (26.6)?=?3, p?=?.006, two-tailed, BCa 95% CI [6.839, 22.702]) and academic effort and performance outcomes in science (M?=?2.737, SD?=?.872; t (36)?=??2, p?=?.053, two-tailed, BCa 95% CI [?1.382, .013]); (M?=?2.053, SD?=?.780; t (37)?=??2.7, p?=?.010, two-tailed, BCa 95% CI [-.845, .038]).
