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.