The Enhancement of Adolescent Student’s Growth Mindset Through Integrated Group Counseling Program with Cognitive Behavioral Theory and Cognitive Group Activities

Abstract

The purposes of this study were to: 1) study growth mindset of adolescent students, 2) develop integrative group counseling program of cognitive behavioral theory and cognitive groups activities, 3) study the results of integrative group counseling program of cognitive behavioral theory and cognitive group activities. The research was divided into two phases.The first phase was studying adolescent students’growth mindset. The sample group was 1,000 Junior High School adolescent students in Bang Khen District through the used of growth mindset test which was developed by the researcher and was analyzed by using norms. In the second phase the development of integrative group counseling program and studying the results of integrative group counseling program of cognitive behavioral theory and cognitive group activities. 20 students whose low scores of growth mindset were randomly assigned into an experimental group and a control group. Each group comprised of 10 students, 12 treatments were given. Each session lasted for 90 minutes, the data were analyzed by using repeated measures ANOVA.

The research results were as follows: 1. The results of the adolescent students’ growth mindset when compared to the norms, it was found that the growth mindset of most adolescent students were at the moderate level. There were 221 adolescent students with a high level of growth mindset, representing 22 percents, 553 adolescent students with moderate level of growth mindset, representing 55 percents, and 226 adolescent students with a low level of growth mindset, representing 23 percents. 2. The integrative group counseling program for enhancement of the growth mindset of adolescent students developed from Cognitive Behavioral Theory and group activities consisted of; Goal setting technique, Imagery technique, Automatic thoughts technique, Socratic Question technique, Cognitive technique, Behavior modification technique, Problem solving technique, Pie technique, Homework assignment technique, Behavioral experiment technique, and behavioral stimulation technique. The program was checked for quality, validated by 3 experts and before it was implemented. This integrative group counseling program composed of 3 stages: Initial stage, working stage, and concluding stage. 3. The experimental group had scores of growth mindset for post-test and the follow-up period higher than the control group with statistical significance at the level of .05. 4. The experimental group had scores of growth mindset for post-test and the follow-up period higher than before the experiment with statistical significance at the level of .05.