Two group therapies cut putting off schoolwork in schoolgirls after floods
Who it’s about: Students, Children, People with a health condition
- Helped
Girls who had sessions on a hopeful view of the future put things off less than girls in thought therapy.
Small randomised trial of 60 schoolgirls with trauma stress after floods · vs nine weekly group sessions on unhelpful thoughts · they rated themselves · ⚠ numbers unreliable; many people dropped out
- Helped
Girls who had nine weekly group sessions on unhelpful thoughts put things off less than girls who got nothing.
- Action: Challenge unhelpful thoughtstested
- Action: Solve problems step by steptested
- Rule: Practise with a groupused
- Rule: In weekly sessionsused
Small randomised trial of 60 schoolgirls with trauma stress after floods · vs girls who got no treatment · they rated themselves · ⚠ numbers unreliable; many people dropped out
The study
Who took part
60 girls in grades 7 to 9 in Khuzestan, Iran, with signs of trauma stress after floods. They were split by chance into three groups of 20 (the Persian text says 21).
What they did
One group had 9 weekly group sessions of therapy that challenges unhelpful thoughts, with problem solving and relaxation. A second group had 6 weekly group sessions on seeing the past, present and future in a more hopeful way. The third group got nothing.
What happened
The English summary says both therapies cut putting off schoolwork compared with getting nothing, and the future-focused sessions cut it more. It says the gains lasted to a later check, but not when that was. The results tables are garbled, so we can't give sizes, and it's unclear how many girls were counted.
Source
Comparison of the Effectiveness of Time Perspective Therapy and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy on Academic Motivation, Academic Engagement, Academic Procrastination, and Academic Persistence in Flood-Affected Secondary School Students with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms (2024)
DOI: 10.61838/jsied.4.1.7 (opens in a new tab)Tools in this study
Action5
Challenge unhelpful thoughtsCognitive restructuring of beliefs such as perfectionism or catastrophising.
Action2
Solve problems step by stepStructured problem solving: define, list options, choose, try, review.
