The Key to Emotional Balance (KBA) program consists of eight sessions, each lasting 40-50 minutes, and aims to help participants develop emotional balance. The first session introduces the individual, introduces group rules, provides information about the program, and supports the client in identifying and expressing their emotions. The second session encourages the client to assess their energy-time intensity in their current and future balance models and, if deviations occur, to restructure them. The third session will help participants recognize their abilities in coping with bipolar illness and its symptoms and to use these abilities effectively. They will also be encouraged to identify factors that hinder their ability to use their abilities and focus on their developed abilities. The fourth session will focus on developing a "positive" perspective, enabling them to approach bipolar illness and its symptoms from a positive perspective. The fifth session will support participants

After an explanation of the study is provided to the individuals in the control group, verbal and written consent will be obtained from those who agree to participate in the study. Individuals who agree to participate will be administered an "Introductory Information Form," the "Difficulties in Emotion Regulation," the "Recovery Assessment Scale," and the Life Goals Scale in the Context of Positive Psychotherapy. Patients in this group will not receive any treatment other than their routine treatment. At the end of the study, individuals will be administered the "Difficulties in Emotion Regulation," the "Recovery Assessment Scale," and the Life Goals Scale in the Context of Positive Psychotherapy. Subsequently, the individuals in the control group will undergo all of the same sessions.

The Key to Emotional Balance (KBA) program consists of eight sessions, each lasting 40-50 minutes, and aims to help participants develop emotional balance. The first session introduces the individual, introduces group rules, provides information about the program, and supports the client in identifying and expressing their emotions. The second session encourages the client to assess their energy-time intensity in their current and future balance models and, if deviations occur, to restructure them. The third session will help participants recognize their abilities in coping with bipolar illness and its symptoms and to use these abilities effectively. They will also be encouraged to identify factors that hinder their ability to use their abilities and focus on their developed abilities. The fourth session will focus on developing a "positive" perspective, enabling them to approach bipolar illness and its symptoms from a positive perspective. The fifth session will support participants

The short form of the scale was developed by Bjureberg and colleagues (2016). The scale is a 5-point Likert-type scale consisting of 16 items. It includes five subscales. These are: difficulty in making sense of emotions when experiencing negative emotions (clarity), difficulty in performing goal-directed behaviors when experiencing negative emotions (goals), difficulty in applying emotion regulation strategies when experiencing negative emotions (strategies), difficulty in accepting negative emotions (non-acceptance), and difficulty in maintaining impulse control when experiencing negative emotions (drive). The validity and reliability study of the scale, which consists of the sub-dimensions of goals (questions 3, 7, 15), strategies (questions 5, 6, 12, 14, 16), non-acceptance (questions 9, 10, 13, openness (questions 1, 2) and impulse (questions 4, 8, 11), was carried out by Yiğit and Güzey-Yiğit (2017) in our country. It is observed that the Cronbach's Alpha internal consistency co

The scale was developed by Corrigan and colleagues (2004) to measure various sub-dimensions of recovery from the perspective of individuals diagnosed with mental illness and adapted to Turkish by Güler and Gurkan (2019). The scale consists of 24 items and 5 sub-dimensions. It is a 5-point Likert-type scale. The sub-dimensions of the scale include: self-confidence and hope sub-dimension: items 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 21; help-seeking behavior sub-dimension: items 18, 19, and 20; goal and achievement orientation sub-dimension: items 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5; trust in others sub-dimension: items 6, 22, 23, and 24; and coping with symptoms sub-dimension: items 15, 16, and 17. There are no reverse items in the scale. Possible scores range from 24 to 120. The total scale score is the sum of the scores obtained from each item. While there is no cutoff score, it is assumed that improvement scores increase as the total scale score increases. Cronbach's alpha values for the scale subscales