REBT Intervention Program for Career Decision-making Difficulties in High School Pupils

Babes-Bolyai University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Worry; Career Decision-making Difficulties; Psychological Distress

Treatments: Behavioral: REBT Career Intervention; Behavioral: Regular Career Intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03807895

19.175/24.10.2018

Details and patient eligibility

About

Career decision-making difficulties are frequent problems for adolescents. Regular intervention or prevention programs mainly provide information for the students about themselves, about the world of work, about their interests and preferences etc. Rational emotive behavioral therapy (REBT), a form of Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) provides help for adolescents to efficiently cope with emotional problems (e.g., psychological distress) related to the career decision-making process. The present study aims to investigate the efficiency of an REBT career intervention program implemented in a school setting. School settings are appropriate to deliver group intervention for students. Classes from Romanian public high-schools will be randomized in either intervention or treatment as usual groups.

Full description

The intervention will be group based, delivered in 8 sessions, over 8 weeks. Each of the eight modules aimed a different component: Psychoeducation, Information about self and world of work, Steps of career decision-making, Problem solving. Additionally, for the REBT groups: Relationship between cognitive distortions/irrational beliefs and emotions, Cognitive restructuring, Exposure/behavioral activation and emotional problem solving, Maintenance of gaining. Homework would be given at every session. REBT intervention programs delivered in school settings represent ecological modalities to target vulnerable groups. Adolescents will complete assessments at four time points: T1 (baseline), T2 (post-intervention), T3 (3 months follow-up) and T4 (6 months follow-up).

Enrollment: 235 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 16 to 19 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adolescents will have ages 16 years to 19 years (11th grade at high school).
• Are attending high school.
• Parents will sign the informed consent and adolescents provide informed assent.

Exclusion criteria

• Age below 16 or above 19 years.
• No signed informed consent from the parents.
• Uninterpretable answers on the validation items of the CDDQ (items nr. 7 and 12)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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235 participants in 2 patient groups

REBT Career Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

High-school students in the experiment group attend to eight modules of career intervention with rational emotive behavioral therapy (REBT) techniques. The eight modules aim a different component: Psychoeducation, Information about the self and the world of work, Steps of Decision making, Relationship between cognitive distortions/irrational beliefs and emotions, Cognitive Restructuring, Exposure/behavior activation and problem solving, Planning, Goal Setting.

Treatment:

Behavioral: REBT Career Intervention

Regular Career Intervention

Active Comparator group

Description:

High-school students in the treatment as usual group attend to eight modules of career intervention with regular career intervention techniques. The eight modules aim a different component: Psychoeducation, Information about the self and the world of work, Steps of Decision making, Problem solving, Planning, Goal Setting.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Regular Career Intervention