Effectiveness of "you Can Do It! Education Program" of Emotional Resilienceon Resilience and Coping Strategies of Children with Emotional and Behavioral Problems

Abstract

The present research aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of You Can Do It! Education Program of emotional resilience as a systematized process for children with emotional and behavioral problems using quantitative design. The present study hypothesized that school children with emotional and behavioral problems, who will be subjected to You Can Do It Education Program of emotional resilience will have an improvement in resilience and adaptive positive coping strategies as compared to control group. It was also hypothesized that there will be a significant increase of resilience and adaptive positive coping strategies in the clinical population of children with emotional and behavioral problems before and after receiving You Can Do It Education Program of emotional resilience. There will be a significant difference in resilience and adaptive positive coping strategies between school children and clinical population of children with emotional and behavioral problems exposed to the You Can Do It Education Program of emotional resilience. The effectiveness of the program was assessed with two different populations in two different settings; school and clinic.With school children, twenty participants comprised of 10 males and 10 females were randomly assigned to either the experimental group or the control group based on purposive sampling from a private school of Karachi, With clinical population, eight participants comprised of 4 males and 4 females were selected based on purposive sampling.