Effectiveness of the Reasoning and Rehabilitation V2 Programme for Improving Personal and Social Skills in Spanish Adolescent Students

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Sánchez-SanSegundo, M.
Ferrer-Cascales, R.
Albaladejo-Blazquez, N.
Alarcó-Rosales, R.
Bowes, Nicola
Ruiz-Robledillo, N.
Date
2020-04-27Acceptance date
2020-04-23
Type
Article
Publisher
MDPI
ISSN
1660-4601
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Significant progress has been made in developing intervention programmes for adolescents at high risk of delinquency, school failure and emotional problems. The most effective programmes incorporate behavioural and skills training aimed at changing attitudes and promoting psychosocial and emotional skills in adolescents. This study examined the effectiveness of a school-based intervention programme based on the Reasoning and Rehabilitation V2 (R&R2). R&R2 is a cognitive behavioural programme developed using psychological theories about the aetiology of delinquency, as well as the cognitive, behavioural and socioemotional deficits in high-risk youth populations. A sample of 142 students (aged 13–17 years old) who were attending alternative education provision in Spain were randomly assigned to two experimental conditions (68 experimental group, 74 control group). The results showed that the R&R2 improved participants’ self-esteem, social skills, empathy and rational problem-solving with a medium–large effect size (η2 = 0.08 to 0.26). The effects of the programme were significant after controlling for age and the pre-test scores in baseline. These findings confirm the effectiveness of the Reasoning and Rehabilitation V2 programme in Spanish adolescent students and offer additional evidence regarding the implementation of the R&R2 programme in both alternative educational and mainstream school settings.
Journal/conference proceeding
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health;
Citation
Sánchez-SanSegundo, M., Ferrer-Cascales, R., Albaladejo-Blazquez, N., Alarcó-Rosales, R., Bowes, N. and Ruiz-Robledillo, N. (2020) 'Effectiveness of the Reasoning and Rehabilitation V2 Programme for Improving Personal and Social Skills in Spanish Adolescent Students', International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(9), p.3040.
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Article published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health on 27 April 2020, available open access at: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17093040.
Sponsorship
Cardiff Metropolitan University (Grant ID: Cardiff Metropolian (Internal))
This study was funded by the Office of the Vice President of Research and Knowledge Transfer of the University of Alicante. Instituto Ciencias de la Educación (ICE). Programa REDES (GRE-16-32). University of Alicante (Spain).
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