A Study to Evaluate the Effectiveness Emotional Focused Therapy on Level of Self Esteem Among Adolescence Residing at Selected Orphanage Homes of Western Maharashtra

Abstract

Children of today are tomorrow s citizens. There are between 143 million and 210 million orphans worldwide, 250,000 children are adopted annually. Children with a sound mind in a sound body are essential for future development of country. As the population of orphan children is growing in epidemic proportions, there is an enormous immediate need to give the necessary care for those orphans so that they have a fruitful life and bright future. Self-esteem is a central concept that is related to academic achievement, social functioning and psychopathology of children and adolescents. Emotion, however, exerts a key influence on cognition and behavior. EFT attempts to shift the focus by emphasizing the crucial role of the experience of adaptive and maladaptive emotion in therapeutic change. Emotion Focused therapy (EFT) grew out of, and was a response to, the overemphasis on cognition and behavior in Western psychotherapy. It is easier to focus on cognition than implicit emotions because they are more easily accessible to consciousness, and it is easier to try to change behaviors than automatic emotional responses because behaviors are more accessible to deliberate control. newlineThe therapy provide enhancement of self-esteem during childhood and is important for preventing poor health behaviors, poor academic performance, and subsequent problems of deviant social behavior. Thus, providing preventive self-esteem development intervention at an early age is especially important. So, in the present study, the research scholar is concerned to measures the efficacy of the Emotion focused therapy (EFT) to improve the level of self-esteem among adolescent age orphan children. newline