A Study Of Group Work Interventions For Adolescents In Divorced Families With School Boredom

At present,in the context of China’s continuously increasing divorce rate and the rising number of divorced families,children from divorced families are increasingly becoming the focus of attention.Junior high school is an important period of rapid physical and psychological growth and development for adolescents from divorced families.As adolescents from divorced families are negatively affected by changes in the family structure,they show psychological problems such as being withdrawn,sensitive,suspicious,pessimistic and inferior,and some adolescents from divorced families may experience serious polarisation in their studies.Some young people from divorced families are prone to play with their mobile phones in class,ignore school order,treat teachers with rejection and resistance,and are prone to boredom and truancy.Early intervention to address the problem of school boredom among adolescents from divorced families and put them back on track can help them avoid more serious behavioural deviations in a timely manner,and is more conducive to their lifelong development.This study takes School S in Shandong Province as an example,and examines the problem of school aversion among adolescents from divorced families in the first year of School S.The study began with a questionnaire survey of all the first year adolescents.The non-parametric test data showed that there was a significant difference between adolescents from divorced families and adolescents from normal families in terms of their aversion to school,with adolescents from divorced families showing more serious aversion to school in terms of cognitive bias,lack of interest in learning and frequent aversion to school.In order to find out the causes of school boredom,this study combined interview and questionnaire methods to analyse the causes of school boredom among adolescents from divorced families in four main areas: personal,family,school and society.Secondly,a learning emotion scale was given to the adolescents from divorced families who participated in the questionnaire to find out their level of boredom.The group was guided by cognitive-behavioural theory and ecosystem theory,group work methods and techniques,and six interventions following the basic steps of group work.At the end of the programme,an evaluation of the process,outcome and satisfaction of the group was conducted based on the process and effectiveness of the group work.The results of the evaluation showed that all the adolescents from divorced families who participated in the group work activities had improved their scores on the Aversion to School Scale,and the results of the paired sample t-test further indicated that the group work intervention had significantly improved the aversion to school of the adolescents from divorced families.In general,group work was effective in intervening in the boredom of adolescents from divorced families.Finally,this study suggests that the government,families and schools should set up a platform to promote social work services in schools,families should establish scientific parenting styles and cultivate quality parent-child relationships,and schools should strengthen interaction with parents and create a good learning environment,so as to improve the boredom of adolescents from divorced families in all aspects and reduce the frequency of boredom.The novelty of this study is to explore strategies to control the problem of school boredom among adolescents from divorced families from the perspective of social work,especially the intervention of group work.