A Study On The Effect Of A REE Based Counseling Program On Improving Students' Emotion In High School

The research is aimed at designing a rational-emotive education (REE) course which satisfies the actual demands of the school, and at the same time making a study of the effect it may have on reducing or removing unhealthy mood. Its main purposes are as follows:1. To inquire into the effect the REE course may have on reducing or removing emotional perplexity, promoting rational thinking and emotional steadiness so as to improve the students' psychological health;2. To make an attempt at the localization of rational education and try out its practical forms, contents, strategy, methods and skills in order to find out possible factors which might affect its effect so that better results will be obtained later.This course is mainly based on Rational-emotive Therapy ( RET) by Albert Ellis from the USA, referring to " A Course Design for Rational Education" by Wu Lijuan from Taiwan as well. Our course contains ten units divided into twenty chapters, each of which covers one period.Ninety-one students from two classes in Senior One of Shenzhen Middle School are involved.Here are the main procedures: A test was given to the students in Senior One of Shenzhen Middle School, using SCL-90 and MHRS-HS. Two classes with approximate scores are chosen, one as the experimental class and the other as the contrast class. Then the experimental class had twenty periods of the REE course while the contrast class had none. At the end of the courses a test with the same meter followed , the data of which were collected , analyzed and then compared with those of the previous test so that the feasibility and the actual effect of the self-edited teaching material could be inspected.The results of the tests show that REE works well in reducing or removing emotional perplexity, so as to improve the students' psychological health, and that itwell meets the demands of the growing senior students in our country.Senior students' unhealthy mood ( anxiety, depression, loneliness, hostility, fear and so on) is closely connected with their self-consciousness, bad school marks, relationship with others, the way they deal with the above matters and their assessment for psychological health. Considering the great help that the REE does in effectively reducing or even removing the bad influence coming from the aspects mentioned above, it is advisable that the REE should be operated widely in schools as a valid, preventive group guiding way.