Gördeles Beşer N.Çam O.2019-08-012019-08-0120091302-6631https://hdl.handle.net/11480/1080Objective: This is a semi-experimental study designed with control-experimental groups aiming to determine the efficiency of program dealing with help adolescents predisposed to crime for developing positive interpersonal relationship. The universe of the study includes 95 adolescents who were registered to the child bureau of Ödemiş County Police Center and the entire universe was decided to be included in the sample. Research was carried out with 60 adolescents who accepted the study. Methods: Adolescents were applied information form, Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire and Interpersonal Relationship Scale at first. Adolescents were divided into control and experiment groups (each groups has 30 adolescents) according to the scores they obtained from scales, age, gender, family type, school attendance status and the classes they attend. Interviews were made for adolescents in the experiment group according to their needed. Interviews that made with each of adolescent were completed in around three weeks, 180 hours. The adolescents whose interviews were finished were applied scales again. The adolescents in the control group were applied the same scales three weeks later. Findings: It was found that all of adolescents were subjected to disciplinary punishment due to fighting. 38.4% expressed that they share their problems with their mothers, 68.4% stated that their relations with their families were 'good' and %3.4 of them stated that they are misunderstood. When the determine the scores of the adolescents in Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire and Interpersonal Relationship Scale total difficulty score was found to be 13.26±4.56, nourishing interpersonal score 30.45±7.23, and poisoning interpersonal relationships score 13.06±6.34. If we consider that the cutoff point of scale, it may be said that adolescents received scores within 'normal' range. In the adolescents in the experiment group, after intervention, statistically significant decrease was found in total difficulty score and poisoning interpersonal relationships style compared to their previous scores (p<0.05) and increase was found in social behaviors and nourishing interpersonal style scores (p>0.05). No significant change was observed in the control group as no intervention was made (p>0.05).When the relation between the socio-demographic characteristics of the adolescents and their rate of benefiting from the program was investigated, it was found those girls and adolescents who share their problem with friends were benefited more from the program. Discussion: The positive means of changing in score that obtained by experiments groups adolescent shows that program was benefit. The result corrected the opinion that was enlisted to professional helping, support, and safe environment can be help them to solve their problem in spite of living problems in childhood, attaining negative behavior.trinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessAdolescentInterpersonal relationshipPredisposed to crimePsychiatry nursingArticle103226232