Positive Therapy for the Enhancement of Adjustment, Self-esteem and Management of Anxiety in Adolescents
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2015
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Six hundred students studying in XI standard were screened using the Case Study Schedule
(Hemalatha, 2008) and Bell's Adjustment Inventory. Out of them 394 students with Very Unsatisfactory
Adjustment/ Unsatisfactory Adjustment were selected for the study. The psychological intervention
Positive Therapy (Hemalatha, 2004) was administered to all the adolescents. All the four strategies of
Positive Therapy namely. Relaxation Therapy, Counselling, Exercises and Behavioural Assignments were
applied. The subjects were provided with Positive Therapy for 30 sessions; each session lasted for about
one hour, over a period of 6 weeks. The results showed that the major causes of Unsatisfactory
Adjustment were improper home atmosphere and adaptation of wrong coping strategies. Initially, the
entire adolescents had Very Unsatisfactory Adjustment/ Unsatisfactory Adjustment but after the
administration of Positive Therapy, for 6 weeks, there was a drastic enhancement in the level of the
Adolescent's Adjustment and reduction in Anxiety.