The Effect Of Solution-focused Group Counseling On Impoverished Undergraduates With Low Self-esteem

In view of the lack of the current research on impoverished undergraduates, This study starts from the self-esteem of impoverished undergraduates.aimed to exolore the state of self-essteem of impoverished undergraduates and to analyze the immediate and follow-up solution-focused group counseling effect and the therapeutic factors of the counseling.This study consists of three parts:In the first part,110 impoverished undergraduates aged from 18-20 participat in the study.SES and GSES and SAQ were used as the tools to exolore the state of self-essteem of impoverished undergraduates.In the second part,48 impoverished undergraduates with low.self-esteem were assigned into experiment group and control group. Used a experiment-control group (pretest-posttest) experimental design, the study analyze the immediate and follow-up solution-focused group counseling effect.In the third part, the written materials of the experiment group are used to qualitative analysis to analy the therapeutic factors of the group counseling.Conclusion are as follows:(1) The level of self-esteem of impoverished undergraduates is significantly lower than the average. The level of self-efficacy and self-acceptance have no significant difference. The self-esteem of impoverished undergraduates have no significant demographic and gender difference.(2) Family poverty is the main reason for the economic poverty of impoverished undergraduates,and family structure,parental education level is the main cause of poverty(3) Solution-focused group counseling is the effective model to improve self-esteem level of improverished undergraduates. Solution-focused group counseling has immediate and follow-up effect on increasing the self-esteem level.(4) Therapeutic factors of the solution-focused group counseling include all the therapeutic factors that Yallom proposed in 1992.(5) Group empowerment and group optimism show the important role in the solution-focused group counseling.They catalyt and strengthen the roles of the other factors.(6) According to the group theme and program design, the solution-focused group counseling is also have existential therapeutic factors.