An interventional study of group social work practice based on emotion-focused therapy in Emotional Intelligence, Emotion Regulation and Empathy Skills, sponsored by Selcuk University. Active, not recruiting at 1 site in Turkey (Türkiye). Open to participants aged 9 Years to 11 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-12-10.
Sponsored by Selcuk University · Not applicable, Interventional, and Supportive care
The general objective of this study is to determine the effects of an emotion-focused therapy-based group social work intervention on the emotion regulation skills, emotional intelligence, and empathic tendency levels of children aged 9-11 years in need of protection and living in a children's home complex, and to explore the participants' experiences of the group intervention. The independent variable of the study is the emotion-focused therapy-based group social work intervention. The dependent variables are the children's emotion regulation skills, emotional intelligence, and empathic tendency levels.
Within the framework of the stated general objective, the quantitative questions addressed in the study are as follows:
-Participants in the study completed the Children's Emotion Regulation Scale (CRS), the BarOn Emotional Intelligence Test Child and Adolescent Form and the KA-Si Empathic Tendency Scale Child Form before the study began. Following the 12-session group process, the same scales were completed for both the experimental and control groups, and differences between the experimental and control groups were examined.
Some participants had difficulty reading and understanding the scale items during the pretest and posttest evaluation processes. Both tests were administered one-on-one with the participants, and those who did not understand were read one by one. The quantitative data collected were then entered into SPSS.
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Be between 9 and 11 years old
Exclusion Criteria:
Being outside the 9-11 age range
The group where 12 sessions of emotion-focused group social work were conducted
Behavioral: group social work practice based on emotion-focused therapy
no intervention group
Emotion-focused therapy, a therapy approach that prioritizes emotions over others, advocates for increasing emotional intelligence, which refers to using emotions as a developmental tool without being dominated by them (Greenberg, 2004b). Emotion-focused therapy, which places emotions at the center, is a practice that has recently become widespread in our country. It is stated that this approach helps individuals identify/be aware of their emotions, express them, make sense of them, appropriately modify/transform them, and use them in a healthy way; as a result, individuals are more successful in taking control of their lives (Greenberg 2010). From this perspective, it is believed that working with children in need of protection using this approach will be beneficial for the children themselves. The results of this study suggest that it may contribute to introducing an emotion-focused perspective into rehabilitative work with children under protection.
BarOn Emotional Intelligence Scale Child and Adolescent Form
This is a 60-item scale, with a minimum score of 60 and a maximum of 240. Higher scores indicate better outcomes, as they indicate improved emotional intelligence skills.
Time frame: up to 12 weeks after registration
Emotion Regulation Scale for Children
The scale consists of 29 items and four subscales: anger (9 items), fear (8 items), sadness (7 items), and excitement (5 items). The lowest score is 29; the highest is 116. Higher scores indicate better outcomes.
Time frame: up to 12 weeks after registration
KA-SI Empathic Tendency Scale - Child Form
The scale consists of 13 items. The minimum score is 13, and the maximum score is 52. As the scale scores increase, empathic tendency increases, and as they decrease, empathic tendency decreases.
Time frame: up to 12 weeks after registration
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