Effect of Solution Focused Group Counseling for High School Students in Order to Struggle with School Burnout

Abstract

In this research, the effect of solution focused group counseling upon high school students’ struggling with school burnout was analyzed. The research was an experimental study in which a pre-test post –test control group random design was used, depending upon the real experimental model. The study group included 30 students that volunteered from among students studying at a high school in central Erzincan Province in the 2014-2015 academic year. School Burnout Scale (Seçer, Halmatov, Veyis and Ateş, 2013) and Personal Information Form were used in the study as data collection tools. Independent Samples t-test and One Factor ANCOVA were performed to analyze the obtained data. At the end of the research, it was determined that solution focused group counseling was effective upon high school students’ struggling with school burnout, and this effect actualized as independent from the variable of gender.