Trauma‐focused counselling and social effectiveness skills training interventions on impaired psychological functioning of internally displaced adolescents in Nigeria

Abstract Trauma‐focused counselling (T‐FC) and social effectiveness skills training (SEST) were used on impaired psychological functioning of early adolescents in IDP Camps in Nigeria. The factorial quasi‐experimental design was adopted. While the cluster sampling technique was used to select 60 participants from the IDP camps and were randomly assigned to T‐FC (20), SEST (20) and control (20) groups, the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale ( α = .81) was used to screen the participants for impaired psychological functioning and adolescents' psychosocial functioning inventory scale ( α = .90) was used for data collection. Analysis of covariance was used for data analysis. The two interventions significantly improved psychological functioning of displaced adolescents that was impaired F (2,57) = 239.29; partial ῆ 2 = 0.89. It was concluded that T‐FC and SEST were found to be potent on impaired psychological functioning of adolescents in internally displaced camps in North‐Central Nigeria.