The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of group counseling for parents of children with disabilities in Korea using a method of meta-analysis. The selected studies were conducted in Korea from 1995 to 2014 and applied pre-post between group design, which means they were selected because...
The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of group counseling for parents of children with disabilities in Korea using a method of meta-analysis. The selected studies were conducted in Korea from 1995 to 2014 and applied pre-post between group design, which means they were selected because they are controlled studies. So 48 studies were selected as final samples according to selecting criteria for this study, and a total of 181 effect size were calculated. The results of the meta-analysis are summarized as follows. Firstly, the overall mean effect size of the group counseling for parents of children with disabilities in this study turned out to be .811. Based on criteria of Cohen, it has the maximum effect size. The result shows that group counseling for parents of children with disabilities were very effective. Secondly, by each dependent variable, the mean effect size on cognitive variable of the effects of group counseling for parents of children with disabilities in this study was .933, the mean effect size on family and social variable of that was .877, the mean effect size on Attitude and behavioral variable of that was .826, the mean effect size on emotional variable of that was .774. Thirdly, the mean effect size of group counseling for parents with disabled children classified by trait-treatment variable(type of gender, children ages of participants, type of program, total session, group size, session duration) is also calculated. The mean effect size is 1.262 for mix group by type of gender, 1.114 for parents with an elementary schoolchild by children ages of participants, 1.128 for music therapy program by type of program, 1.113 for 15 ~ 20 parents by group size, 1.823 for 16 ~ 19 times by total session, .822 for 90 ~ 120 minutes by session duration. This study can enlarge applicability of group counseling for parents of children with disabilities and provide a basic information helping to design and conduct studies on effectiveness of group counseling for parents of children with disabilities as well as to organize or operate effective group counseling for parents of children with disabilities in the future. Also, it will be able to give basic materials to help to effective progressing or operating of group counseling for parents of children with disabilities.
The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of group counseling for parents of children with disabilities in Korea using a method of meta-analysis. The selected studies were conducted in Korea from 1995 to 2014 and applied pre-post between group design, which means they were selected because they are controlled studies. So 48 studies were selected as final samples according to selecting criteria for this study, and a total of 181 effect size were calculated. The results of the meta-analysis are summarized as follows. Firstly, the overall mean effect size of the group counseling for parents of children with disabilities in this study turned out to be .811. Based on criteria of Cohen, it has the maximum effect size. The result shows that group counseling for parents of children with disabilities were very effective. Secondly, by each dependent variable, the mean effect size on cognitive variable of the effects of group counseling for parents of children with disabilities in this study was .933, the mean effect size on family and social variable of that was .877, the mean effect size on Attitude and behavioral variable of that was .826, the mean effect size on emotional variable of that was .774. Thirdly, the mean effect size of group counseling for parents with disabled children classified by trait-treatment variable(type of gender, children ages of participants, type of program, total session, group size, session duration) is also calculated. The mean effect size is 1.262 for mix group by type of gender, 1.114 for parents with an elementary schoolchild by children ages of participants, 1.128 for music therapy program by type of program, 1.113 for 15 ~ 20 parents by group size, 1.823 for 16 ~ 19 times by total session, .822 for 90 ~ 120 minutes by session duration. This study can enlarge applicability of group counseling for parents of children with disabilities and provide a basic information helping to design and conduct studies on effectiveness of group counseling for parents of children with disabilities as well as to organize or operate effective group counseling for parents of children with disabilities in the future. Also, it will be able to give basic materials to help to effective progressing or operating of group counseling for parents of children with disabilities.
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