**7.2 Promotive approach**

The promotive approach focuses on the enhancement of skills and competence among adolescents. Following areas can be focused on the promotion of mental health among adolescent girls.


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the family.

adolescents.

following areas.

**7.1 Curative approach**

family interventions to this particular cohort. Family plays an important role in the process of care plan for adolescent girls and ensuring care and protection for them in the future. It is also essential to discuss the concerns of parents as romantic involvement of their daughter and associated issues can have significant impact on

therapy, psycho-education, narrative approach, integrated approach, etc.

Family interventions emphasize upon systemic approach and different schools of family therapies are psycho-dynamic approach, structural family therapy, strategic family therapy, solution focused, problem solving, cognitive behavioral family

The major issues identified at the family level are authoritative and punitive parenting, enmeshed boundaries, parental autonomy on children's marriage, impaired parent- child relationship, loss of trust and maladaptive coping strategies, etc. Families belong to the developmental life cycle stage of families with adolescent children reported significant challenges. For those families with dysfunctions, may need therapy sessions as either joint or conjoint sessions. The main aim of family interventions is to reduce risk factors in family, promote protective factors and enhance parent's skills to deal with the issues and safeguard care and protection of

This approach focuses on providing therapeutic services for adolescent girls in the institutions and in a clinical setup. Specific techniques derived from different therapies such as Supportive psychotherapy, cognitive behavior therapy, Emotions focused therapy, Interpersonal relationship therapy, Solution focused therapy, Strength-based approach, Dialectical behavior therapy and Motivation enhance-

Individual therapy sessions focus on addressing their thoughts, emotions and behaviors associated with romantic involvement and enhancing their abilities to deal with the current situations and crisis. Individual therapy can focus on the

• Establishing therapeutic alliance by being nonjudgmental, ensuring confidentiality, and emphasizing on their active participation in the therapy process.

• Supportive interventions using ventilation, emotional catharsis, validation of

• Provide *education* on child protection mechanism, functions of Child Welfare Committee, activities in children home for girls, child protection personnel, the process of making care plan and services available for children and adoles-

• Insight facilitation: reflection on their perspectives on romantic involvement, process of selecting partner, commitment for stable relationship, their role in each phase of romantic involvement, decision making process in run away, sexual activity, marriage, pregnancy and childbearing, consequences of risk behaviors on different areas such as family, academics, mental health, social consequences and facilitating understanding on current situation from multiple perspectives.

• Adopting *cognitive approaches*: assessment of thought process on romantic involvement, sexuality and reproductive health, family life, academics and career goals and future plans; identifying and assessing cognitive errors,

ment therapy, etc. can be adopted in the therapy process.

cents to ensure their safety and overall development.

their concerns and experiences.

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Identifying their needs, challenges and support required to meet these developmental tasks and facilitating the same.
