Effect of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy on Quality Life of Parents of Special Children

The aim of the present research was to study the effect of cognitive behavior therapy on quality life of parents of special children. It is a field experimental study in which the parents of special children were given Cognitive Behaviour Therapy before and after administration of Quality of Life Scale of WHOQOL-BREF Scale of Orley (1996) in which cognitive behavior therapy was taken as independent variable and quality of life was taken as dependent variable. With the help of incidental purposive sampling technique 60 parents of special children were taken as a sample whose age ranged between 25 – 38 years. Results revealed insignificant difference on all the dimensions of quality of life scale as the parents of special children seem to display a higher burden and a significant impairment in their quality of life.