Effectiveness Of Integrated Approach of Emotional First Aid And Life Skills Training On Psychological Distress And Mental Well-Being Of Adolescent Students

Abstract

Well-being as a concept is quite complex to apply and practice, though the concept has gained momentum over the past decade, it holds of prime importance especially in today’s time as our country is progressing towards being labelled as the most “Depressed” country. Hence, being aware of well-being plays a very important role. Integrated approach of Life Skills and Emotional First Aid helps in doing just that, here the main aim of the study is to understand the importance of Emotional First Aid and Life skills training on Psychological Distress and Mental well-being.the design used in this study was Pre-Post experimental design by using 120 adolescents (60 experimental and 60 control group) after screening of those who scored high levels of distress in psychological distress using the DASS-21 item scale and low on mental well-being using the Warwick Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale. The study carried a major objective of exploring if Emotional First aid and Life skills training had a negative influence on Psychological distress and Positive effect on mental wellbeing. Integrated training was delivered for a period of six weeks after which post test data was obtained from both experimental and control group.