Social groupwork for promoting psychological well-being of adolescents enrolled in sponsorship programs
| Autor: | Sheeja Remani B. Karalam, Shinto Joseph |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Mental Health Services 050103 clinical psychology Adolescent viruses media_common.quotation_subject Psychological intervention India 050109 social psychology Health Promotion social group work General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Social group Blueprint Intervention (counseling) Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Intervention Research General Pharmacology Toxicology and Pharmaceutics Empowerment Child media_common General Immunology and Microbiology 05 social sciences virus diseases General Medicine Articles biochemical phenomena metabolism and nutrition digestive system diseases Adolescent population Mental Health Conceptual framework empowerment Adolescent Health Services Psychological well-being marginalized adolescents psychological well-being Female Psychology Clinical psychology Research Article |
| Zdroj: | F1000Research |
| ISSN: | 2046-1402 |
| Popis: | Background: The dearth of data on adolescents highlighted in the UN’s data disaggregation against the agenda ‘no one left behind’ calls for research on ‘the second decade’. Moreover, India is a country with the world’s largest adolescent population, and as such, studies and policies for developing competencies of adolescents are crucial to the country’s development; interventions instilling confidence to aspire to a better future in underprivileged adolescents are vital to mitigate inequity. Methods: This intervention study adopted a quasi-experimental design to measure the effectiveness of social groupwork in raising the psychological well-being of adolescents in child sponsorship programs in Kerala. Forty adolescents from a Child Sponsorship Program (CSP) center in Kochi were recruited for the study. Those suggested by the CSP center considering their poor academic performance and behavior problems were allocated to the intervention group and the rest to the comparison group. The intervention was designed in response to the information garnered through a preliminary study and administered to the intervention group (n=20). We conducted pre-test and post-test for both the intervention group and comparison group (n=20). Results: Comparison between pre- and post-measurements carried out using paired sample t-test for the intervention group and comparison group separately gave a p-value of 0.05 for the comparison group. Thus, it was proved that psychological well-being of participants in the intervention group was raised significantly due to the social group work intervention. Conclusions: Applying refined granularity, this research adds data specifically on adolescents enrolled in child sponsorship programs and sets a blueprint for social groupwork to improve their psychological well-being. Proposing a conceptual framework for child sponsorship programs, this study recommends further research in all aspects of its functioning, and interventions at group, family, and community levels, for the well-being and empowerment of marginalized adolescents. |
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