Effect of psychosocial intervention on adjustment of adolescents of substance using parents in selected senior secondary schools of Punjab

The purpose of present study was to assess the effect of psychosocial intervention on adjustment among adolescents of substance using parents of selected senior secondary schools with a purpose to assess the feasibility of study, to find reliability and to implicate the intervention package by early screening of such adolescent at risk.

A quantitative research approach and one group pre-test and post-test research design was used to conduct the study. One school of Amritsar district was selected for pilot study by random sampling method from the list of schools affiliated to P.S.E.B. For pilot study 20 adolescents were randomly (lottery method with replacement) selected from 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th class for implementation of the intervention package on adjustment. The modified screening CAST-6 was used to screen the adolescents of substance using parents and R.K. Ojha‘s Bell‘s standardized Adjustment inventory tool was used for collection of data. Intervention on adjustment was given for 2 weeks period in 6 sessions and post-test was conducted after 6 weeks of intervention.

The data was analysed by descriptive statistics (mean, frequency, percentage) and inferential statistics (t-test and ANOVA). The result revealed that there was significant difference at p< 0.01 level was found in pre-test and post-test adjustment scores of adolescents. Therefore the intervention was found to be effective and can be implemented to large sample. The reliability of tools were also found to be highly significant at p< 0.05 level.

Therefore it can be inferred that most of adolescents of substance using parents need such type of implications on various psychosocial problems which they are facing due to parental substance use and there is hence an imperative need for therapeutic intervention with this population.