Effects and efficacy of depression prevention program focused on promoting expression of positive self-statement in elementary school third graders

The purpose of this study was to investigate effects and efficacy of classroom-based depression prevention program focused on promoting expression of positive self-statement. The participants in this study were elementary school third graders. A waiting list control design was used, in which the children were assigned either to intervention group (n =32) or waiting list control group (n =65). As result, no significant effect was seen between two groups. On the other hand, as a result of examination in depressed high group and low group, it was suggested that the program developed in this study may be effective for children exhibiting a high depression tendency. Finally, future tasks in earlier depression-preventive intervention for children were discussed

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I have been a professor of French for thirty-five years and instructed more than three thousand students in that time. Unfortunately, I remember only a few of these students. I enjoy teaching French and I have never considered leaving my profession. I do not have a particular scientific method for teaching French. Actually, I would say that I use my own method combining the usage of music and videos and a comparison of French grammatical pronunciation points with the same points in other languages such as English,Italian and Spanish. Also, I instructed using psychological references based on my experiences that have taken place in the past and in the present. These references have sometimes surprised my students as I am prone to use humor in the classroom. My humor tends to make them feel comfortable or even uncomfortable at times. It is my view that the students of today seem to have lost some of the passion and hope that were exhibited by the students of twenty years ago. In spite of this obvious loss of interest, I continue to use the same personal method that I used in the past