The Development of Emotional Intelligence and Self-Esteem through an Experiential Unifying Psychotherapeutic Intervention in Adolescents
Journal Title: Journal of Experiential Psychotherapy - Year 2019, Vol 22, Issue 2
Abstract
Introduction: Adolescence involves the transition from childhood to maturity. It is a period of identity development. Haviland (1994) argued that emotions consolidate separate events through emotional processes or emotional valence. Certain emotions can become elaborated simply because they are associated with other different emotions. Adolescence is full of unprecedented experiences that serve for the first time as emotional triggers. It also brings changes to the types of emotions triggered by those events or to the situations in which emotions are elicited. On the other hand, teenagers are more likely to link their emotions to events related to peers, especially those of the opposite sex. Objectives: The objectives of this paper emphasize the shaping up of a therapeutic framework for adolescents’ personal development, characterized by empathy, unconditional acceptance, congruence, collaboration, facilitated during the sessions by humanistic experiential techniques. Methods: A 14 weeks personal development group with 17 adolescents, colleagues from the same class, aged 17-19 years, was implemented; the students were also tested before and after the therapeutic intervention with Daniel Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence Test (adapted by Mihaela Rocco) and Rosenberg Scale, to determine the level of self-esteem. Results: After 14 weeks of personal development through Experiential Unifying Psychotherapy, self-esteem increased in 7 of the 8 participants of the core group and the level of emotional intelligence increased in 13 of the participants from the whole group. Conclusions: The results of this pilot research highlighted the importance of the effects of Experiential Unifying Psychotherapy on self-esteem and emotional intelligence in adolescents.
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Anita Valentina Dănciulescu
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