Looking after adolescents’ well-being: REBT group manual for reducing adolescents’ career indecision

College students face a barrage of challenges in fulfilling their different life roles. Aside from being a student, they also have different responsibilities as a son or daughter, a friend or as a student leader. Young adults experience many changes in all aspects of their lives (Schulenberg, Bryant, & O'Malley, 2004). Moreover, it is the transition or adjustment period to adulthood when ethical values acquired in childhood are compared with the set of values gained as they were growing (Ozbay, 1997). This developed manual intends to help Filipino adolescents who are faced with career indecision. The aim of this manual is for this population to learn and apply Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) to dispute irrational beliefs and replace them with rational ones. With the intention of disputing irrational beliefs that the members hold about themselves in relation to career indecision, various activities (Mastering Ellis’ ABCDE Model, scheduling worry time, refocusing, tapping social support, assertiveness training and goal-setting) were prepared. The implication of this would be for these adolescents to identify and modify their irrational beliefs to battle career indecision. It is important for this population to develop personal coping strategies that would enable them to focus and work on their rational beliefs with the end goal that eventually they could have clarity on their career choice/s and be comfortable with their career decision.