Development of Cognitive Therapy Group Intervention (CTGI) on Resilience among Adolescents

• Main Authors: Nasir, Len, Amalia, Madihie, Salmah, Mohamad Yusoff
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Faculty of Cognitive Sciences and Human Development, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) 2022
• Subjects: BF Psychology
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/41902/3/Development.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/41902/; https://publisher.unimas.my/ojs/index.php/JCSHD/article/view/1992; https://doi.org/10.33736/jcshd.1992.2020

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the validity and reliability of Cognitive Therapy Intervention (CTI) which focusing on the resilience of adolescents with behavioural problems. CTI is developed based on Cognitive Theory and the Sidek Module Development Model. The CTI has eight interventions. The CTI manuscript was distributed to five content experts to determine intervention’s validity. The finding shows that the validity index 0.87 was obtained. Meanwhile, thirty two adolescents were selected to measure the reliability of each intervention by evaluating the objectives in each intervention session. As a result, the reliability index 0.85 was obtained. From these two indexes, the Cognitive Therapy Intervention (CTI) possesses high validity and good reliability, and is ready to use. The intervention implies the counselling intervention in working resilience of adolescents with behavioural behaviour. This CTI is recommended to be used by school counsellor to handle adolescents with behavioural problems.