Examination of the effectiveness of resilience psychoeducational program for adolescents under the risk group

This research is an experimental study conducted to examine the effect of the Resilience Psychoeducation Program for adolescents in the risk group. Personal Information Form, Risk Factors Determination List and Resilience and Youth Development Module are used as data collection tools in the study. The research is pretest-posttest- follow-up with controlled group 2x3 split plot design. The research was carried out with a sample of 24 students, randomly selected among the 9. and 10. grade students whose resiliency levels were low in 2017-2018 school year. 24 students were selected randomly to experimental (n=12) and control (n=12) groups. The "Resilience Psychoeducation Program' developed by the researcher was applied to the experimental group as 7 sessions, one session per week. After the experimental process, both the experimental and the control groups were post-test and the follow-up test was applied to both groups after 6 weeks. After the end of the experimental procedure, the post test was applied to the experimental and control groups and the follow-up test was carried out after 6 weeks. The obtained data were analyzed with SPSS 20.0 package program. Friedman Test and Wilcoxon Test were used for intra-group comparisons, Mann Whitney U Test was used for intergroup comparisons. According to the results of the study, there was a statistically significant difference between the total internal factors pre-test, post-test and follow-up test measurements of the adolescents in the experimental group. According to this finding, the total internal factors scores of adolescents increased gradually and showed an improvement in the marginal area (p =.05). In the control group there was no significant difference between groups and within groups are internal factors in total points. When the experimental and control groups of the study were compared, no statistically significant difference was found between the total internal factors pre-test, post-test and follow-up test scores. In this context, the Resilience Psychoeducation Program was not able to create significant difference between experimental and control groups. The findings were discussed according to literature and suggestions were offered.