Effectiveness of Positive Psychotherapy on Mental Wellbeing Among Caregivers of Cerebral Palsy Children

The Central idea of the proposed research proposal is first to translate adapt and validate the Caregiver Difficulties Scale & Positive Psychotherapy sessions based manual into Urdu language then secondly, assessment of burnout, burden, depression, mental wellbeing, sense of coherence and social support among caregivers of Cerebral palsy children and finally measuring the effectiveness of Positive Psychotherapy for treating mental health issues of caregivers of Cerebral Palsy children. This research proposal will provide an Urdu language based standardized positive psycho therapeutic based intervention to mental health practitioners for treating mental health issues of caregivers of cerebral palsy children in sociocultural context of Pakistan. In Pakistan earlier conducted researches mainly focused on assessment of mental health issues of caregivers of cerebral palsy children, however present research will not only assess the sample regarding their mental health issues, but in addition it will also contribute in provision of psychometrically sound Urdu language based positive Psychotherapy. Positive Psychotherapy focuses on positive emotions and personal strengths instead of ruminating over weaknesses.

Inclusion Criteria:Only those participants will be included who would have moderate to high score on caregiver burden, depression & burnout and lower score in wellbeing, social support & sense of coherence.Interventions will be given to the caregivers having moderate level of burnout & depression.Inclusion CriteriaCaregiver will be someone who takes the primary responsibility for caregiving a child with CP.Only caregivers of Diagnosed CP childCaregivers having only 1 CP child in the familyEducational status of the care giver will be matric and above.Age of CP child under 10 years Exclusion Criteria:• Caregivers with any severe diagnosed Psychiatric illness (psychosis & depressive Illness) will not be added in the present study.More than 1 CP child in the familyCaregivers who are Uneducated will not be added in the present study.