Emerging adults between the ages of 18-29 who experienced the Kahramanmaraş 2023 earthquake in Turkey constitute the experimental group.

The cognitive behavioral approach-based psychoeducation program will be implemented in 9 sessions, two days a week and 90 minutes a day.In the psychoeducation program, based on the cognitive behavioral approach, trauma and trauma symptoms, emotion-thought-behavior analysis, cognitive errors, automatic thoughts, alternative thought generation, mentality and distorted thoughts that reveal feelings of depression, anxiety, stress, anger, guilt, inadequacy, helplessness, The cognitive aspect of hopelessness and methods of coping with negative emotions will be discussed.The training program includes verbal expression, visual material (projection), question and answer, homework, sample stories, entertaining activities, warm-up games, etc. It will be continued and feedback will be shared.

No intervention will be made to this group.

The 9-session cognitive behavioral approach-based psychoeducation program will last 5 weeks. Sessions; It will be carried out in the form of acquaintance, recognition of trauma and its effects, emotion and thought behavior analysis, cognitive errors, automatic thoughts and alternative thought generation, cognitive emotion regulation strategies, coping with negative emotions, instilling hope and termination session.

The scale consists of 36 items, with 9 subscales and 4 items in each subscale. Each subscale receives a value between 4-20 points and the scale is a 5-point Likert type scale (1: Never, 2: Sometimes, 47 3: Regularly, 4: Frequently, 5: Always).Evaluation is made with the scores obtained from the subscales. A higher score from a subscale indicates greater use of the cognitive emotion regulation strategy determined by that subscale.

The scale consists of 21 items, with 3 sub-dimensions (depression, anxiety and stress) and 7 items in each sub-dimension.

The scale is designed as a self-evaluation scale with a 4-point Likert structure scored between 0-4. (0- Never, 1- Sometimes and occasionally, 2- Quite often, 3- Always). The scoring range of the scale for depression is: 0-4 normal, 5-6 mild, 7-10 moderate, 11-13 severe, 14 and above very severe; for anxiety: 0-3 normal, 4-5 mild, 6-7 moderate, 8-9 severe, and 10 and above very severe; For stress: 0-7 is normal, 8-9 is mild, 10-12 is moderate, 13-16 is severe, 17 and above is very severe.