The Effect of REBT Structured Counselling Group towards the Grief and Depression among Teenagers of Divorced Parent
Parent divorce often affect teenagers psychologically, particularly causing Sorrow and Depression. This quasi experiment research aims to measure the effect of Structured Counselling Group towards the Grief (GRF) and Depression (DEP) among teenagers of divorced parent based on prescores and post test. Data was gathered by using the Inventory of Teenagers of Divorced Parent (ITDP) with validity value of .78 and reliability value of .938. The study involved 60 subjects (30 male and 30 female) which were divided into 6 groups with 2 male therapy groups, 2 female therapy groupss and 2 controlling groups. The collected data was analyzed using mean, t test, MANCOVA and post Hoc test at significant value of 0.05. Result shows that the REBT Structured Counselling Group was effective in bringing down the psychology variables of GRF and DEP. Besides, it also indicates that there are no gender differences whether for male or female; and no level of education differences whether for lower secondary or upper secondary in terms of the effect of therapy towards all variables. As such, the enhancement of prevention approach are recommended as an early stage of intervention effort towards teenagers of divorced parent.