Alteration of adolescent self-efficacy when applying brief counseling at school

Keywords:
adolescents, self-efficacy, counseling, school students
Abstract

Our objective in this research was to establish the impact of brief solution-focused counselling on adolescents’ self-efficacy. This counseling method is used to help adolescents to deal with various problems effectively. The results show that 65.6% of the counseled students achieved prominent or moderate subjective solutions to their problems as a result of the counseling. We concluded that the method is suitable for counseling adolescents at school as it is a brief, well-structured, and flexible approach that helps to improve adolescents’ self-efficacy and enables them to experience a subjective decrease in the urgency of the problems they face.

Author Biographies
  1. Vinga Rakauskiene, Lithuanian Sports University
    Department of Health, Physical, and Social Education
  2. Audrone Dumciene, Lithuanian Sports University
    Department of Health, Physical, and Social Education
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2013-01-23
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