@article{2018,title={RELATION BETWEEN RELIGIOUS SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE PRACTICES FOR PROTECTED CHILDREN AND HOPE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL RESILIENCE},abstractNode={The objective of this study is to determine, via experimental and control groups, the difference of the religious/spiritual guidance services provided to protected children and adolescents on their hope and psychological resilience scores. Religious/spiritual guidance services are being carried out for protected children and adolescents within the framework of the Protocol entered into by and between Akdeniz University, Faculty of Theology and the Antalya Provincial Directorate of Family and Social Policies (with its name as in that period) on May 2017 for the above-mentioned purpose. This study covers the 24-week period between September 2017 and February 2018. A total of 81 children and adolescents aged 7 to 17 years old, being 55 females and 26 males, were provided with religious and spiritual guidance services by the 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade students of the Faculty of Theology of Akdeniz University. Of protected children in Antalya, a total of 81 children and adolescents aged 7 to 17 years old, being 64 females and 17 males, whom were not provided with religious/spiritual guidance services, were selected as the control group. The psychological resiliency scale for children and adolescents, developed by Arslan (2015), and the children's hope scale, developed by Snyder (1997) and adapted into Turkish by Kemer and Atik, were used in the study. Data obtained in the study were analysed by using SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) for Windows 21.0. Descriptive statistical methods (number, percentage, mean, standard deviation) were used to evaluate the data. The T-Test was used to compare quantitative data for the differences between the two groups. The relationship between dependent and independent variables of the study was tested by Pearson correlation analysis and the effect was tested by regression analysis. The findings were found to be at a confidence interval of 5% and significance level of 95%. While there was no significant difference between the genders in the study, the descriptive statistics study, performed in order to determine whether the religious/spiritual guidance services made any differences on the hope and psychological resilience scores, revealed that both the hope and psychological resilience scores of the participants in the experimental group were higher. Also, it was determined that the difference between the hope and psychological resilience scores of the participants in the experimental group and the control group was significant (P <.05). It may be useful that religious/spiritual counselling practices for protected children and adolescents be carried out and extended by professional practitioners.},author={Sema ERYÜCEL},year={2018},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science}}