Management of Anxiety and Enhancement of Adjustment in Nursing Students through Positive Therapy
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2009-09-23
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From Avinashilingam Jan Shikshan Sansthan, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India, 79
female nursing students with 'High anxiety' and/or 'Unsatisfactory adjustment' were
selected by Purposive Sampling and were given the psychological intervention called,
Positive Therapy. Positive Therapy is a package evolved by Hemalatha Natesan (2004),
based on the Eastern techniques of Yoga and Western techniques of Cognitive Behaviour
Therapy. It has 4 strategies namely, Relaxation Therapy, Counselling, Exercises and
Behavioural Assignments. Positive Therapy was given for 6 sessions in a week to all the
subjects, after which they were re-assessed twice; immediately after Positive Therapy and
after 4 weeks. The results revealed that initially, most of them had 'High' anxiety; none
of them had 'Excellent Y'Good' overall adjustment; in fact, many of them had 'Very
Unsatisfactory '/'Unsatisfactory' overall adjustment, as well as in spec jfIc areas such as,
home, health, social and emotional. After Positive Therapy, anxiety in most of the
subjects had come down to 'Low' level; majority of them developed 'Good' overall
adjustment and also 'Good' adjustment in different areas such as home, health, social
and emotional. These results suggest that Positive Therapy is very effective in the
management of anxiety and enhancement of adjustment in the selected nursing students.