The Efficacy of EMDR-Focused Group Counseling Program Applied to Primary School Students with PTSD Symptoms in Grief Process
Teke E. Avşaroğlu S.
29 June 2024Turkish Psychological Counseling and Guidance Association
Turkish Psychological Counseling and Guidance Journal
2024#14Issue 73259 - 276 pp.
The purpose of the paper is to examine the efficacy of the EMDR-focused group counseling program applied to primary school students who show PTSD symptoms in grief process. The research is quasi-experimental, pretest posttest and follow-up design with a control group. Participants were 12 students; each of the experimental group and the control group consisted of 6 students. Child PTSD Symptom Scale (CPSS) was utilized in the research. EMDR-focused group counseling program was applied to the experimental group students. For data analysis, Mann Whitney U Test was used for intergroup comparisons; Friedman Test and Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test were used for intragroup comparisons. The result of the analysis revealed that in intragroup comparisons, the mean scores of the entire subscales of CPSS, which are reexperiencing (p<0.05), avoidance (p<0.05) and hyperarousal (p<0.05), of the experimental group students who participated in the EMDR-focused group counseling program differed significantly. In order to identify the measurements causing the difference, multiple comparison tests were conducted. It is detected that the reexperiencing (p<0.05) and hyperarousal (p<0.05) subscales score means of the experimental group students decreased significantly from the pretest to the follow-up test, the mean score of the avoidance (p<0.05) subscale decreased significantly from the pretest to the posttest. Regarding the intragroup comparisons, it was found that follow-up measures of reexperiencing (p<0.05), avoidance (p<0.05) and hyperarousal (p<0.05) scores of the experimental group decreased significantly. Based on the results, the EMDR-focused group counseling program is effective in reducing the symptoms of primary school students who show PTSD symptoms in grief process. The current study ought to be examined and supported by further research.
EMDR , Grief , Group Counseling , Program , PTSD
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Malatya Turgut Ozal University, Malatya, Turkey
Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya, Turkey
Akhmet Yassawi University, Turkistan, Kazakhstan
Malatya Turgut Ozal University
Necmettin Erbakan University
Akhmet Yassawi University
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