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The purpose of this study is to develop a narrative therapy counseling program for the enhancement of the seventh-grade students’ resilience and to analyze its effects. Working with all the seventh-grade students who entered a middle school located in the city of Ansan, Korea, in March, 2012, this research conducted a test on their resilience and self-efficacy on March 9, 2012. After 25 percent of them who belonged to the low bottom in terms of resilience were first selected, they were divided into an experiment group and a control group through their voluntary participation or their homeroom teachers’ recommendation. In order to confirm the effects of the program, the experiment group was provided with a group counseling program for the improvement of resilience and a post test was subsequently conducted by having both the groups take part in it. The group counseling program lasted over the period of time ranging from March 27, 2012, to April 28, 2012. The experiment group was composed of two subgroups and the group counseling program was administered to the experiment group twice a week with each session running for 90 minutes. The program consisted of a total of 8 sessions. With the help of SPSS/Windows 19.0, the collected data of this study went through Mann-Whitney test, which was used to confirm the homogeneity of the groups, and Wilcoxon test, which was used to verify the effects of the program. As a result, the research indicated that the resilience and self-efficacy of the experiment group were significantly improved than those of the control group. In addition, the quality analysis found that the narrative therapy program had the power to help the seventh grade students’ consciousness to convert a problem-dominant narrative ,which focused on problems, into a new alternative narrative.