Eficacia de un programa de entrenamiento en fortalezas personales para reducir la sintomatología ansiosa y depresiva en adolescents

Abstract

Efficacy of a personal strengths training program to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms in adolescents. The literature shows us the impor-tance of identifying experiences that allow adolescents to develop in the school context, it also indicates the scant empirical evidence that exists in this population at school, therefore, this study aims to compare the effectiveness of a program of intervention, focused on training in personal strengths, with respect to another intervention program based on the training of social skills and techniques to reduce stress and a waiting list control group, to reduce the anxious and depressive symptoms of the/ as teenagers The trainings were applied collectively and consisted of 6 intervention sessions of two hours each. The participants were 65 (33 boys and 32 girls) ESO (Compulsory Secondary Education) students aged between 13 and 17 years (M = 14.32 and SD = .89). The results show that the training program focused on the development of personal strengths is effective in increasing the trained strengths, as well as being more effective in reducing symptoms than the other training program or the absence of it. Imple-menting this type of program across schools could help a more complete and comprehensive development of the adolescent.