Effectiveness of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy for an Adolescent Girl with Moderate Depression

Reddy, Pashapu Dharma; Ammapattian, Thirumoorthy; Poreddi, Vijayalakshmi; Hamza, M.

doi:10.4103/0253-7176.150849

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“…There was compelling evidence that SFBT was an effective treatment for a wide variety of behavioral and psychological outcomes and could be useful in treating internalizing and externalizing problematic behaviors of children and juveniles (13,14),which seemed to be shorter, and cheaper than alternative treatments (15). SFBT studies documented that it could serve as an appropriate intervention for psychological disturbances like depression and might produce helpful results even for people with long-term physical problems (16)(17)(18) and health behaviors of female adolescents (19). These carefully constructed communication processes are believed to be key components to helping client's change.…”

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The Efficiency of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy on Adjustment Problems of Female Students in Amol, Iran

Hosseinpour¹,

Jadidi²,

Mohebbi³

et al. 2015

Int J School Health

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Background: Adjustment and coordination with environment is indispensable to all people. Objectives: The aim of present study was to determine the effectiveness of solution-focused brief therapy in increasing adjustment of high school female students. Materials and Methods: This study was based on an experimental pretest-posttest design including 30 female students of Amol high school in academic year 2011 -2012.The participants were selected by purposive non-convenience sampling methods, randomly assigned to experimental and control groups, who completed the Bell's adjustment questionnaire in pre-test phase. Thirty subjects with scores close to mean were selected and randomly divided into control and experimental groups. Solution-focused brief therapy intervention for experimental group was carried out in 5 sessions followed by performing posttest on the two groups. The data obtained were then analyzed using MANCOVA. Results:The results showed that solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) was effective in increasing adjustment of the students (P < 0.0006), as well as increasing 3 subscales of adjustment questionnaire comprising home adjustment (P < 0.0006); health adjustment (P < 0.0006); and social adjustment (P < 0.0003); but had no effect on affective adjustment (P < 0.081). Conclusions: Considering the significant effect of SFBT interventions on increasing adjustment in young students, the training of school counselors can be an effective means for youth to achieve their goals and decrease some problems in the community.

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The Efficiency of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy on Adjustment Problems of Female Students in Amol, Iran

Hosseinpour¹,

Jadidi²,

Mohebbi³

et al. 2015

Int J School Health

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“…59 It was shown in many studies that SFGC reduces the mental pressure of students, increases the social compatibility of adolescents, promotes motivation and the progress of the educational performance of individuals, increases the mental health of students, and reduces the depression symptoms, as well as anxiety and stress in different age groups. [17][18][19][20]40,41,46,54 Maljanen et al 40 concluded in their study that SFC has been effective in improving the depression and anxiety disorders of hospitalized patients with 1 year of follow-up. Salary Feyzabad 60 reported that SFGC is effective in reducing mental pressure in high school student girls.…”

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Effectiveness of Solution-Focused Group Counseling on the Mental Health of Midwifery Students

Javid

Ahmadi

Mirzaei

et al. 2019

Rev Bras Ginecol Obstet

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Objective The present study was conducted with the objective of investigating the effectiveness of solution-focused group counseling (SFGC) on promoting the mental health of midwifery students. Methods The present study is an intervention-based study with a pretest, a post-test, and a control group. The statistical population included all of the midwifery students studying in the midwifery department of the Bam University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran, who filled out the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) in the screening phase. In the second phase, 40 individuals, having a low level of mental health based on the cutoff score of 23, were selected and randomly divided into 2 groups (intervention and control), each group with 20 participants. The intervention group participated in 5 sessions of 75 minutes for SFGC. Then, the post-test was held in both groups and the data analysis was conducted using the Mann-Whitney and the Kruskal-Wallis test with IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, Version 21.0 (IBM Corp, Armonk, NY, USA). The significance level was considered as p < 0.05. Results The findings showed that the mean of the post-test mental health scores of the intervention group (14.5 ± 50.35) and of the control group (23.6 ± 35.83) showed a statistically significant difference (p < 0.0001). Moreover, the comparison between the mean scores of the mental health subscales (physical symptoms, stress, social performance, and depression) showed a statistically significant difference in these groups, and SFGC improved physical symptoms, stress, social performance, and depression in the members of the intervention group. Conclusion Solution-focused group counseling may improve all levels of mental health. This type of counseling is recommended to be used to solve the psychological problems and to improve the mental health of students, as well as of the staff of the health system.

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“…In this sense, this study can be regarded as an original one. Yet, there is evidence that personal psychological counseling based on sbfa is highly effective in mitigating mental problems such as anxiety and depression (Franklin, Streeter, Kim & Tripodi, 2007;Franklin, Moore & Hopson, 2008;Kim et al, 2015;Reddy, Thirumoorthy, Vijayalakshmi & Hamza, 2015;Selekman, 2010). It is also seen that it is effective in school problems such as drop-out or truancy (Lovarco & Csiernik, 2015).…”

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The Effect of Solution-Focused Brief Counseling on Reducing Test Anxiety

Altundağ

Bulut

2019

Av. Psicol. Latinoam.

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Test anxiety is a very common phenomena observed in K-12 level of education all over the world. This can take a more complex and stressful form in countries using national exam in university entrance. Turkey is one of those countries. Since higher education is free for all of citizens, students have found themselves confronting a very competitive testing-culture. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to test the effectiveness of the solution-focused brief counseling approach on test anxiety of senior year high school students. An experimental study was conducted in an Anatolian high school in Bolu, Turkey in the academic year 2015-2016.Avances en Psicología Latinoamericana / Bogotá (Colombia) / Vol. 37(1) / pp. 1-11 / 2019 / ISSNe2145-4515 students' test anxiety. These findings were found to be consistent with the related literature. Keywords: Solution-Focused Brief approach, psychological counseling, test anxiety, adolescent, high school student, university entrance exam. Palavras-chave: modelo de Aconselhamento Breve Focado na solução, ansiedade ante a avaliação, adolescentes, estudante de secundária, exame de ingresso à universidade.

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Effectiveness of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy for an Adolescent Girl with Moderate Depression

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The Efficiency of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy on Adjustment Problems of Female Students in Amol, Iran

The Efficiency of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy on Adjustment Problems of Female Students in Amol, Iran

Effectiveness of Solution-Focused Group Counseling on the Mental Health of Midwifery Students

The Effect of Solution-Focused Brief Counseling on Reducing Test Anxiety

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