شبكة المعلومات العربية التربوية

The present study aimed to identify the effectiveness of a cognitive behavioral program for the development of some social skills in the students of the Preparatory stage in the city of Erbil during the academic year (2017/2018). To achieve this objective, the experimental method was adopted and the social skills scale and the extension program were applied on a sample of (36) students in the tenth class, (18) of them represented the experimental sample, and (18) other represented the control sample. To address the research data, the following statistical methods were used such as ) Mann – Whitney test and (Z Wilcoxon). Finally, the results showed: the effectiveness of the proposed program, by the improvement of the social skills of the experimental sample. On the bases of such results, the study was culminated by some recommendations and suggestions for future studies. (Published Abstract)