Effectiveness of the Reasoning and Rehabilitation V2 Programme for Improving Personal and Social Skills in Spanish Adolescent Students

Significant progress has been made in developing intervention programmes for adolescents at high risk of delinquency, school failure and emotional problems. The most effective programmes incorporate behavioural and skills training aimed at changing attitudes and promoting psychosocial and emotional...

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Published in:International journal of environmental research and public health 2020-04, Vol.17 (9), p.3040
Main Authors: Sánchez-SanSegundo, Miriam, Ferrer-Cascales, Rosario, Albaladejo-Blazquez, Natalia, Alarcó-Rosales, Raquel, Bowes, Nicola, Ruiz-Robledillo, Nicolás
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescents
Adults
Attitude change
Behavior
Child development
Cognition & reasoning
Cognitive ability
Data collection
Delinquency
Design
Emotions
Female
Humans
Interpersonal Relations
Intervention
Male
Meta-analysis
Performance evaluation
Problem Solving
Psychological factors
Questionnaires
Reasoning
Recidivism
Rehabilitation
Rehabilitation of criminals
Schools
Skills
Social Skills
Spain
Students
Studies
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Summary:Significant progress has been made in developing intervention programmes for adolescents at high risk of delinquency, school failure and emotional problems. The most effective programmes incorporate behavioural and skills training aimed at changing attitudes and promoting psychosocial and emotional skills in adolescents. This study examined the effectiveness of a school-based intervention programme based on the Reasoning and Rehabilitation V2 (R&R2). R&R2 is a cognitive behavioural programme developed using psychological theories about the aetiology of delinquency, as well as the cognitive, behavioural and socioemotional deficits in high-risk youth populations. A sample of 142 students (aged 13-17 years old) who were attending alternative education provision in Spain were randomly assigned to two experimental conditions (68 experimental group, 74 control group). The results showed that the R&R2 improved participants' self-esteem, social skills, empathy and rational problem-solving with a medium-large effect size (η2 = 0.08 to 0.26). The effects of the programme were significant after controlling for age and the pre-test scores in baseline. These findings confirm the effectiveness of the Reasoning and Rehabilitation V2 programme in Spanish adolescent students and offer additional evidence regarding the implementation of the R&R2 programme in both alternative educational and mainstream school settings.
ISSN:1660-4601
1661-7827
1660-4601
DOI:10.3390/ijerph17093040