Abstract
<p class="a"><strong><span lang="EN-US">Background and aim: </span></strong><span lang="EN-US">This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of short-term solution-focused group counseling on sense of psychological </span><span lang="AR-SA"></span><span lang="EN-US">coherence. </span></p><p class="a"><strong><span lang="EN-US">Method: </span></strong><span lang="EN-US">This research is a pretest-posttest quasi-experimental study design with a nonequivalent </span><span lang="AR-SA"></span><span lang="EN-US">control group and two-month follow-up. </span></p><p class="a"><span lang="EN-US">The research statistical population comprises all female adolescents in the first grade of secondary school who referred (were referred) to counseling offices in Mashhad Education District in 2015 due to behavioral and academic problems. The research sample consisted of 30 adolescents’ 15 years old girl using available sampling method and was randomly assigned into two experimental (15 individuals) and control (15 individuals) groups. For data collection, the revised form of Flensborg Sense of Coherence Scale (2006) was applied. Both groups took a pretest. Then, the therapeutic model (short-term solution-focused method) was implemented during 8 weekly sessions of 1.5 hours for the experimental group, but the control group received no training. At the end of 8 weeks, a posttest was taken from both groups and a two-month follow-up was conducted. To analyze the data, analysis of variance with repeated measures was used.</span></p><p class="a"><strong><span lang="EN-US">Findings: </span></strong><span lang="EN-US">The obtained results demonstrated that short-term solution-focused training could significantly increase the sense of coherence (P&lt;0.05) among adolescents’ girl in both posttest and two-month follow-up. </span></p><p class="a"><strong><span lang="EN-US">Conclusion: </span></strong><span lang="EN-US">S</span><span lang="EN-US">hort-term solution-focused training may promote sense of psychological coherence among female adolescent students.</span></p>
Highlights
Adolescence is a critical stage of life that causes the adolescents to experience higher levels of negative emotions in relation to what is under their control due to negative cognitive beliefs and this, in turn, sets the stage for the incidence of problematic and risky behaviors among this age group (Wan, 2012)
The obtained results demonstrated that short-term solution-focused training could significantly increase the sense of coherence (P
Adolescence is a critical stage of life that causes the adolescents to experience higher levels of negative emotions in relation to what is under their control due to negative cognitive beliefs and this, in turn, sets the stage for the incidence of problematic and risky behaviors among this age group (Wan, 2012)
Summary
Adolescence is a critical stage of life that causes the adolescents to experience higher levels of negative emotions in relation to what is under their control due to negative cognitive beliefs and this, in turn, sets the stage for the incidence of problematic and risky behaviors among this age group (Wan, 2012). Adolescence is a time of significant growth changes which cause the adolescents to deal with numerous growth challenges. They further refer to risky behaviors and this prepares the ground for long-term consequences and emotional and behavioral problems such as depression, anxiety, conduct disorder, substance abuse, suicidal thoughts and so on (Schmied & Tully, 2009). The prevalence of risky behaviors in adolescence is regarded as the most important factor in the failure of this age group in everyday life (Bradly et al, 2009). This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of short-term solution-focused group counseling on sense of psychological coherence
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