Evaluating the Efficacy of Resilience Enhancement Module A Workshop Designed for Adolescents

Research on resilience during adolescence began with studies of risky behavior, delinquency, and teen pregnancy. More recently, research and intervention have moved toward broader approaches aimed at improving prospects in multiple domains. Keeping that in mind, present study was designed after analyzing the need of hour for development of certain workshop modules which have multifaceted approach for enhancing the level of resilience in stress prone teens and adolescents. The purpose of the study was to enhance resilience in adolescents through development of an interactive workshop module. Module was designed with the help of expert panel th th of psychology field. For the purpose, sixty 11 and 12 grade students of English Medium Co-ed school of Jaipur, Rajasthan were selected through purposive sampling. Non–equivalent Control group design was applied in which 30 students were enrolled in the experimental group and were given the interventional treatment after filling RQ assessment developed by Russell & Russell (2006) as pretest. At the end of the 24 sessions (45 minutes duration each) extended for the period of two months, posttest were filled by both the groups with feedback performa mentioning the self reported evaluation of the workshop. Statistical analysis (t-test) revealed significant mean difference at 0.01 levels between the means of pre-post test condition of the experimental group. No significant difference was recorded between the means of pre-post test scores of the control group who were not enrolled in the workshop. Instead of that decrement in the level of resilience was observed in the post test scores of the control group. Results implicated the efficacy of designed workshop which can be used by senior secondary teachers and counselors to deal with certain problems of adolescents through interactive activities and games.