The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect on group counseling for enhancing school resilience on
learned helplessness of middle school students from the functionally deficient family. The following was the concrete
methods on this study: The middle school students from the functionally deficient family were chosen by the test
of family function over 236 students of D middle school students in Busan. The experimental group and the
control group were placed randomly according to their wanting to participation of this experiment. Each group was
consist of 12 students. The experimental group was treated 12 times of group counseling for enhancing school
resilience while the control group had no treatment. On the basis of a group counseling program to enhance
school resilience of middle school students in a functionally deficient family by Kyoung-Tak Lee(2010), group
counseling for enhancing school resilience was reorganized by expert's advice considered students' interest and the
purpose of this research, and each session took 90 minutes. General Functioning scale translated by Seon-Kyung
Lee(1997) was used among McMaster's Family Assessment Device by Epstein and so on(1983) to measure family
function deficiency and to measure learned helplessness of middle school students from the functionally deficient
family, Learned Helplessness scale Ki-Myeong Shin(1990) was used. To verify the homogeneity between the
experimental group and the control group, t-test was used. After calculating the average and standard deviation of
pre-test and post-test, the data were treated statistically by ANCOVA. The result of this study was followed:
Firstly, the experimental group of group counseling for enhancing school resilience reduced learned helplessness
significantly compared with the control group. Secondly, the experimental group of group counseling for enhancing
school resilience reduced significantly subfactors of learned helplessness compared with the control group. Thirdly,
the experimental group of group counseling for enhancing school resilience compared with the control group
showed positive change to the learned helplessness. Therefore, the results above show that group counseling for
enhancing school resilience have a positive effect on reducing learned helplessness of middle school students from
the functionally deficient family and its subfactors. On conclusion, this study could help middle school students
from the functionally deficient family to prevent and heal learned helplessness and adaptation of schooling and
could be used as data to understand the importance of home and school that affected on the learned helplessness
of middle school students from the functionally deficient family.