Examining Effectiveness of the Intervention Program on the Attitude and Intention of Seeking Psychological Help in Adolescents

This research examined the effectiveness of a planned behavior theory-oriented psycho-educational program on adolescents' attitudes and intentions to seek psychological help. The researchers used embedded designs, one of the mixed methods designs. Participants are students at a high school in Iğdır, Turkey, in the 2020-2021 academic year. The research study group consists of 26 people, 13 in the experimental group and 13 in the control group. We used a 2x3 ANOVA model for the effectiveness of the psycho-education program. We conducted content analysis on qualitative data. The study revealed that intervention program was effective in reducing adolescents' negative attitudes towards receiving psychological help and increasing their intention to seek psychological help. In this study, qualitative data supports the quantitative findings. The results show that the theory of planned behavior-oriented psycho-education program is an effective intervention program in reducing negative attitudes towards seeking psychological help and increasing intentions to seek psychological help.