Abstract:

This study studied the impact of psychological consultation with cognitive behavioral groups in university students on negative automatic thoughts and non-functional attitudes. The research was carried out in the 2017-2018 educational year. The research was done with university students studying in Gaziantep. Students are applied to the Automatic Thought Scale and Non-Functional Attitudes Scale. 115 students were taught before the study. 22 students with the highest score of scales were selected for research. Students are divided into two groups with arithmetic average and standard deviations similar (11 student experimental groups, 11 student control groups). Psychological consultation with the cognitive behavioral group was applied to the experimental group for 6 sessions. As a statistical analysis, Mann Whitney U Test and Wilcoxon Signed sequence test were used. According to the study, psychological consultation with the cognitive behavioral group with university students has significantly reduced the negative automatic thoughts and non-functional attitudes of students.

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