Group sessions on making better choices helped high-school boys put off schoolwork less
Who it’s about: Students, Children
- Helped
Boys who had eight group talks on choices and plans put off exam study and homework less than others.
- Action: Learn how the problem workstested
- Action: Plan your weektested
- Rule: Practise with a groupused
- Rule: With a coach or therapistused
Very small randomised trial of 24 high-school boys in Iran · vs boys who got no counselling · they rated themselves · ⚠ numbers unreliable
The study
Who took part
24 boys in their first year of high school at one school in Zaveh County, Iran. The paper doesn't say how many were in each group.
What they did
One group had eight group sessions with a counsellor, each 1.5 hours long. They covered basic needs, taking responsibility for choices, swapping poor choices for better ones, making plans and sticking to them. The other group got nothing.
What happened
At the end, the counselling group rated themselves as putting off studying for exams and doing assignments less than the other group. The paper's main results table has errors, so we can't be sure how strong the difference was. There was no later check.
Source
Effectiveness of Group Counseling based on Reality Therapy on Academic Procrastination and Behavioral Self-Regulation of Students (2017)
Tools in this study
Action4
Learn how the problem worksPsychoeducation about procrastination, habits, sleep, routines or ADHD.
