The Effect of Resilience Psychoeducation Program Based on Positive Psychotherapy on Nurses Resilience and Balanced Life Skills

Based on the principles of positive psychology, Positive Psychotherapy integrates symptoms with strengths, resources with risks, weaknesses with values, and hopes with regret to understand the natural complexities of human experiences in a balanced way. This includes cognitive restructuring of the individual, reviewing expectations, and acquiring new goals.

Resilience is a person's process of adapting, resilience, or the ability to successfully cope with change/disaster against major stressors such as a trauma, a threat, a tragedy, or familial and relational distress, serious health problems, workplace and financial problems. It is stated that people with high psychological resilience are more successful in adapting to change and struggling against obstacles, and people with high psychological resilience experience less emotional exhaustion.10 Possible risky situations that individuals encounter in their work life and the protective factors they have also affect their psychological resilience. It is also stated that psychological resilience is an important concept for nurses who are faced with many risk factors, especially in business life, and who have to provide professional care to patients who are in difficult situations and in need, and who have to comfort the patient.1 The effectiveness of developing and strengthening psychological resilience in coping with the stressful environment of nursing has been proven. It is stated that among the coping resources of nurses, adequate rest, self-care and social support are of great importance and that these resources are positively related to the quality of life.

The aim of this research is to determine the effect of the Psychological Resilience Psychoeducation Program Based on Positive Psychotherapy on the resilience of nurses and to determine their balanced life skills.