It is very important to adjust to the school life because adolescents spend their most of the times in school. Therefore, many group counseling program were applied to improve the adjustment of children and adolescent's school life.
The purpose of ...
It is very important to adjust to the school life because adolescents spend their most of the times in school. Therefore, many group counseling program were applied to improve the adjustment of children and adolescent's school life.
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of group counseling programs for school life adjustment by meta-analysis. In doing so, there are some questions to help this research. First, how does the type of group counseling program effect for one's adjustment in school? Second, how does type of group counseling program effect? Third, how does each participants in different circumstances effect on group counseling? Fourth, how does each researchers give an effect differently? Fifth, how does group counseling among treatment types can effect?
In order to solve this research problem, 42 theses were used and were analyzed in 43 different effects. The results of the research follows. The mean of effect size of group counseling was significant(p<.00). The scale of effect size of group counseling is r which it changes to standard score, then it is divided in to 3 parts by standard score 0. Then the each part can be analyzed through one way ANOVA. It was shown that, the first part includes play therapy, self-assertion training, career explorations program ,group art therapy, and friendship improvement program. The second part includes peer group counseling, self-esteem program, improvement of adjustment, gestalt group counseling, activity-centered program, MBTI, NLP, and REBT. The last part includes reality therapy, self-psychology, self-growth program, solution-centered program, and sensitivity training. The most effective group counseling was young generation who has ADHD, then a juvenile delinquent/rejectee, maladjustment, elementary school underachievers, applicant, random sample, and broken-home students. Moreover, the age and gender didn't affect the result of this research and different types of researcher were used but there were no differences. The periods of the group counseling was divided in three parts, the first group counseling happened less then 10 times, the second group counseling was in 11-20 times, and the last group was in more then 20 times, as the result, the most effective counseling was 11-20 times. Moreover, the counseling should last less then 50 minutes because the most of the theses that were used were based on elementary students.
This research shows that the group counseling program is very effective in young generation's adjustment in school, and it is more effective to young generation who has bad behavior. Moreover, it is the best to have group counseling to be below or about 15 times, and the time of counseling should last base on the age of the participants.