Assertiveness training and family psychoeducational therapies on adolescents mental resilience in the prevention of drug use in boarding schools.

Abstract

OBJECTIVE\nThis study aims to determine the effect of assertiveness training and family psychoeducational therapies on adolescent mental resilience in the prevention of drug use in boarding schools.\n\n\nMETHOD\nThe research design was quasi-experimental pre-posttest with a control group. Sixty-four adolescent students at the Boarding school were selected using purposive sampling technique and cluster random sampling. The intervention group 1 only received general nursing intervention, and the intervention group 2 received general nursing intervention, assertiveness training, and family psychoeducational therapies.\n\n\nRESULTS\nThe results showed that the mental resilience of adolescent students increased significantly after receiving nursing intervention and in the high mental resilience category (p=0.017), after assertiveness training and family psychoeducational therapies, adolescent mental resilience in the intervention group 2 increased greater than only general nursing intervention (p=0.000) with the change of high mental resilience category becomes very high mental resilience.\n\n\nCONCLUSIONS\nThere is an influence of assertiveness training and family psychoeducational therapies on adolescent mental resilience in the prevention of drugs used in Boarding school.