Management of emotional and behavioural problems among school going adolescents: Pre-post intervention analysis

Pages: 1064-1066
Bhagyashree Kar and Jai Prakash (Department of Clinical Psychology, RINPAS, Kanke, Ranchi, Jharkhand)

Adolescence is one of the imperative periods of any individual’s life with its innumerable and unique problems. Stress and behavioural problems are the most common among them. The present study aims to overcome or minimize the level of emotional and behavioural problems as well as stress in the school going adolescents with the help of a therapeutic package which combine relaxation and cognitive behaviour therapy, with inter modal therapy (RCBTI Therapy). By using purposive sampling technique a total of 10 participants were selected. Further these 10 participants were divided equally into experimental and control group. Youth Self Report and Stress Inventory have been used. Thereafter the experimental group was given the therapeutic intervention for approximately 21 sessions, twice a week. Each session was of 45-60 minutes duration. Tailor made therapeutic intervention was conducted in which sessions of relaxation therapy, cognitive behaviour therapy and inter modal therapy as per requirement of the adolescents were included. The present study concludes that with the help of the therapeutic package which combine relaxation therapy, cognitive behaviour therapy and inter modal therapy (RCBTI Therapy) participants demonstrated improvement with regard to their stress level and decrease in various emotional and behavioural problems such as attention problems, somatic complains, social problems, rule-breaking behaviour, and aggressive behavior.