Publication date: Jan 07, 2025
The COVID-19 pandemic’s psychological impact prompted this study to investigate the inner child healing course’s effectiveness in reducing fear of COVID-19 and improving emotional family relationships. This quasi-experimental research adopted a pretest-posttest design with a control group. Convenience sampling was employed to select 42 women randomly from five psychotherapy centers in Isfahan (Iran) in 2020. They were then randomly assigned to a control group (n = 21) and an experimental group (n = 21). The experimental group received the inner child healing course in six sessions, whereas the control group received no intervention. The Fear of COVID-19 Scale and the Emotional Family Relationships Questionnaire were utilized for data collection. Analysis of covariance was employed for data analysis using SPSS 25. Participants in the inner child healing group reported significantly higher mean scores on happiness (12. 40 +/- 1. 11) compared to the control group (5. 90 +/- 2. 24). This pattern of higher means in the inner child healing group persisted for freedom and intimacy in family relationships (11. 50 +/- 1. 90 vs. 5. 12 +/- 1. 60), trust in the family (13. 61 +/- 1. 90 vs. 6. 21 +/- 2. 04), and collaborative decision-making with family (12. 34 +/- 2. 05 vs. 6. 31 +/- 1. 80). Statistical analysis revealed significant effects of the inner child healing course on happiness (p
| Concepts | Keywords |
|---|---|
| Iran | COVID-19 |
| Pandemic | emotions |
| Psychotherapy | family |
| Women | fear |
| Mental healing |
Semantics
| Type | Source | Name |
|---|---|---|
| disease | MESH | COVID-19 |
| disease | IDO | intervention |
| disease | MESH | Long Covid |