In the January issue of the Journal of Clinical Psychology with Children and Adolescents, the effectiveness results of a Personal Strengths Training Program to Reduce Anxious and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents are presented.
The objective was to compare the effectiveness of a personal strengths training program with another program focused on social and technical skills in reducing stress, along with a waiting list control group.
The study included 65 participants, students of Compulsory Secondary Education (ESO), aged between 13 and 17 years (M = 14.32, SD = 0.89), who participated in a total of 6 collective intervention sessions, each lasting two hours.
The results demonstrate that the personal strengths program increases trained strengths and is more effective in reducing anxious and depressive symptoms compared to other programs and the control group.
In conclusion, implementing transversal programs in schools focused on personal strengths could contribute to the more complete and extensive development of adolescents.
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