Girls put off schoolwork less after group therapy on deep-rooted beliefs
Who it’s about: Students, Children
- Helped
After ten group sessions of therapy on deep-rooted beliefs, girls said they put off schoolwork less than untreated girls.
- Action: Challenge unhelpful thoughtstested
- Action: Learn how the problem workstested
- Rule: Practise with a groupused
- Rule: With a coach or therapistused
Small randomised trial of 30 high-school girls who put off schoolwork a lot · vs girls who got nothing · they rated themselves · ⚠ results look too good to be true
The study
Who took part
30 high-school girls in Mashhad, Iran, with 15 in each group. They were chosen because they put off schoolwork a lot and found it hard to manage their own learning.
What they did
One group had ten 90-minute group sessions of schema therapy, twice a week. Schema therapy looks at deep-rooted beliefs about yourself, tests them, and practises new ways of acting through imagining, role-play and homework. The other group got nothing.
What happened
At the end, the therapy group rated themselves as putting off test preparation, homework and term papers less than the other group. This mostly held at a check up to one month later. The size of the difference looked implausibly large.
Source
اثربخشی طرحواره درمانی گروهی بر تعللورزی تحصیلی و خودتنظیمی در یادگیری دانشآموزان دختر مقطع دوم متوسطه (2020)
DOI: 10.22067/tpccp.2020.39365 (opens in a new tab)Tools in this study
Action5
Challenge unhelpful thoughtsCognitive restructuring of beliefs such as perfectionism or catastrophising.
Action4
Learn how the problem worksPsychoeducation about procrastination, habits, sleep, routines or ADHD.
