The Effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Coping Skills and Emotion Regulation Trainings on Reducing the Feeling of Hopelessness, Happiness and Self-esteem in Orphan Children and Adolescents

The aim of current study was to compare the effectiveness of teaching of cognitive behavioral coping skills and emotion regulation on the reduction of hopelessness, happiness, and self-esteem in orphan children and adolescents. The method of this study was quasi experimental with control group. All orphan children and adolescents living in Ardabil welfare organization in 1392 comprised the statistical population of this study (N=83). Forty five people were selected from this society by simple random sampling. Having conducted a clinical interview, they were assigned randomly to three groups of cognitive behavioral coping skills, emotion regulation, and control. All the participants of the three groups responded to the questionnaires related to hopelessness, happiness, and self-esteem at pre- and post-test levels. Collected data were analyzed by ANCOVA test. The results showed that there were significant differences between three groups in hopelessness, happiness, and self-esteem. Results of post hog test showed that cognitive behavioral coping skills and emotion regulation training were effective in hopelessness and happiness equally. But emotion regulation training did not influence self-esteem. Giving orphan children and adolescents have difficult in Natural acquisition of behavioral and emotional skills, necessary for growth, training of Cognitive-behavioral coping skills and emotion regulation can be effective in an increased rate of decline in happiness and hopelessness of these children and adolescent.