Emotional Management in Adolescents

Intervention Protocol: Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Emotion Regulation Program for Adolescents

This study aims to give information about the content of the school-based emotion regulation program study designed for adolescent children to develop their emotion regulation skills. The study is a randomized controlled trial with adolescents aged 14-16 years (9th and 10th grade). Two high schools were selected for the research in Ankara, Türkiye. A face-to-face formal training consisting of four modules of four weeks (50 min/week). Based on the Vibrational Energy Theory, the program will be applied to the intervention group to be selected by the randomization method. The training topics include recognizing and accepting emotions, directed thinking and process orientation, and acceptance and willingness (reinforcement module) modules. With this intervention, adolescents' emotion regulation skills and psychological well-being are expected to increase, and anxiety levels will decrease. The program to be implemented will contribute to the acquiring and developing emotion regulation skills that deal with processes such as awareness, control, management, and acceptance of emotions in adolescents.

Key Words: adolescence, emotion, regulation, school

Inclusion Criteria:

• . Criteria for inclusion in the research;

  • continuing their education in the 9th-10th grade,
  • agreeing to participate in the study,
  • giving written consent to participate in the study by their parents,
  • stating that they can participate in the four-week program,
  • speaking Turkish.

Exclusion Criteria:

• The criteria for exclusion from the study were:

  • the student has a medically diagnosed mental problem that will prevent the student from following the program,
  • the student has a psychological medical diagnosis, and
  • he/she is receiving psychiatric medication or therapy.