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KMID : 1022520100140020119
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Journal of Play Therapy
2010 Volume.14 No. 2 p.119 ~ p.135
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The effects of solution-focused group counseling program to reduce the externalizing problem and improve self-esteem of early school aged children
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Hong Gi-Eun
Kim Choon-Kyung
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Abstract
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This study aims to develop the Solution-focused Group Counseling Program for early school aged children who having high level externalizing problem and to examine the effect of program both on reducing high level externalizing problem and on improving low level self-esteem. Subjects were 12 second-grade children who showed high level externalizing problem in pre-test. They were divided in two groups, the treatment group and the control group by means of random sampling. And two groups were identified as equivalents for the study in the pre-test. The treatment group participated in the Solution-focused Group Counseling Program twice a week in five weeks. The Solution-focused Group Counseling Program was based on the solution-focused therapy. The program was consisted of ten sessions that include five phases which are building rapport, setting the goals, leading to the solutions, solution-focused intervening, keeping the goals. The instruments of measurement for the pre-post-follow up test were the Korean-Child Behavior Checklist and the Self-Esteem Inventory. The data were analyzed by Mann- Whitney U Test and Wilcoxon Matched-Pairs Signed Ranks Test. The major results of this study are as follows. The Solution-focused Group Counseling Program reduced early school aged children’s high level externalizing problem. As a subordinate position, delinquent reduced. And The Solution-focused Group Counseling Program improved early school aged children’s low level self-esteem. As a subordinate position, self-esteem under social peer improved. The conclusions of this study is The Solution-focused Group Counseling Program has significant effects on reducing the participants’ externalizing problem and on increasing the participants’ self-esteem.
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KEYWORD
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extemalizing problem, self-esteem, solution-focused group counseling program
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