Abstract: Abstract May 12th 2008, 8-grade earthquake hit Wenchuan, Sichuan Province, causing a great loss. The present study aims to improve the resilience of the middle school students in Stricken Areas 3 years after the earthquake and to enhance their resistance to adversity, fulfill their potentials and help them achieve post-trauma growth by developing a Group Music Counseling. 22 students with low resilience were chosen according to the result of the CD-RISC. After matching the genders, the students were assigned randomly into the control group and the intervention group, both of which contain 11 students (5 males and 6 females). Group music counseling was used to improve the resilience of the junior students in the stricken area. Social Support, Emotional Management, Coping Style and Goal Orientation are the 4 parts of the counseling program, and there are 10 topics from these 4 parts. Main form of group music counseling was chorus and music discussion. The intervention lasted 7 weeks. In order to test the effect of Group Music Counseling, CD-RISC, SAS, SDS, Scale of Social Support for Teens, Scale of Coping Style Scale for Middle School Students and SES and self-designed interview outline were used in pre-, post-test and follow-up survey. After the intervention, the post-test of intervention group in Resilience, Social Support, Problem-solving, Looking for social support, rationalization and Self-esteem are significantly higher than the post-test of control group. Two months after the intervention, the follow-up scores of the intervention group compared with the post-test had a slight change which was the effect of intervention had a slight drop. The follow-up scores of the intervention group compare with the pre-test scores, are also significantly higher than pre-test in Resilience, Social Support, Problem-solving, Looking for social support , rationalization and Self-esteem. Group Music Counseling can effectively improve various aspects of middle school students in stricken area, including resilience, Social Support, positive coping styles (Problem-solving, Looking for social support and rationalization) and Self-esteem. By contrast, they express lower anxiety and depression mood and less negative coping styles (Escape).The follow up survey reveals that Group Music Counseling has sustained influence on resilience.

Key words: Earthquake Stricken Area, Resilience, Group Music Counseling

摘要： 目的：考查团体音乐辅导对提高地震灾区初中生心理弹性的效果。方法：选取心理弹性较低的地震灾区初中生22名，随机分入干预组和控制组，对干预组进行团体音乐辅导。结果：后测结果表明，与控制组相比，干预组被试的心理弹性及其相关因素指标均有显著改善；两个月后的回访结果显示，干预组被试得分与后测无显著差异，仍显著优于前测。结论：团体音乐辅导能够有效地提高地震灾区初中生的心理弹性水平，并具有一定的长效性。

关键词: 地震灾区, 心理弹性, 团体音乐辅导