The effect of psycoeducation on social-emotional learning and emotional regulation skills for delinquent child-adolescents (tur)

Abstract

INTRODUCTION[|] The study was conducted to evaluate the effect of a psychoeducation program on delinquent children's and adolescents' social emotional learning and emotional management skills in a regional psychiatric hospital in child-adolescent psychiatry clinics. [¤]METHODS[|] The research was carried out in pre-test, post-test, semi-experimental design model. Three instruments were used to collect data: Introductory Information Form, Social Emotional Learning Skills Scale, Emotion Management Skills Scale. A semi-structured psychoeducation program consisting of seven sessions was carried out with children-adolescents. Analyzes were made on the data of 18 children-adolescents who complete all psychoeducation sessions. In the evaluation of the research data, descriptive statistical analyzes and paired samples t-test were used. [¤]RESULTS[|]It was determined that children-adolescent average age was 14.22+-0.98 and %66.7 (n=12) were male. The psychoeducation program applied to these children and adolescents significantly increased the total and subscale point averages of the social emotional learning abilities of the child and adolescents (p <0.05), whereas the ability to manage emotions was not statistically significant (p=0.05). [¤]DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION[|]The effect of psychoeducation for juvenile adolescents who were treated in the clinic with a diagnosis of mental illness, showed significant relation with social-emotional learning skills, but did not show significant relation with emotion regulation skills. [¤]

Keywords

• juvenile delinquency
• social learning
• emotion regulation
• mental disorders