the effect of group social work intervention with an empowerment approach on self-care of afghan adolescent students

Background: adolescence is a vulnerable period, and the experience of migration leads to psychosocial stress, increasing the need for education and enhancement of self-care skills. consequently, empowering the self-care abilities of migrant adolescents is essential.aim: the present study was conducted with aim to determine the effect of group social work intervention with an empowerment approach on self-care of afghan adolescents, focused on the physical, psychosocial, and emotional dimensions.method: this quasi-experimental study with a pre-test-post-test design and experimental and control groups was conducted from september 2023 to november 2024. afghan students were randomly assigned to two groups of experimental (n=15) and control (n=15). the data collection tool included the adolescent self-care questionnaire (as-clq), which consisted of eight sessions of a self-care-based training workshop. both groups were evaluated before and after the intervention.results: there was a significant difference between the self-care scores of the control and experimental groups in the post-test phase (p<0.05). also, group social work intervention with an empowerment approach is effective on self-care and its dimensions, but not on the emotional self-care dimension (p<0.05).implications for practice: group social work intervention with an empowerment approach improved self-care among afghan adolescents. therefore, it is expected that the results of this study be used in designing educational and support programs for refugee and immigrant adolescents.