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The present study aimed to test the effect of a counseling program based on play activities in improving self-esteem and developing self-confidence among male sexual assault victims of male kindergarten children who were subjected to sexual abuse from the age of (4-6) years, based on the quasi-experimental approach with two groups: experimental, And the control, accordingly, the researcher prepared the study tools that included the measure of self-esteem and the measure of self-confidence for kindergarten children, as well as a study program based on play activities to raise self-esteem and improve the level of self-confidence among the study sample children who were intentionally chosen and numbered (36) A child who meets the conditions of the sample from the recipients with their parents at the psychiatric clinic in the Psychiatric Department of El-Demerdash Hospitaland divided them into two experimental groups, and the control number of each group (18). With following the methodological procedures of the study, the results showed that there are statistically significant differences between the mean scores of the members of the experimental group, and the controls in the pre and post measurement on the dimensions of the self-confidence measure, the measure of self-esteem in favor of the post-measurement, and the absence of statistically significant differences between the mean scores of the members of the experimental group in the two measurements Dimensional, and traceability, on the dimensions of the self-confidence measure and the measure of self-esteem, and in light of the results of the study, the researcher worked on recommending the continuation of its program to similar samples, and also working on benefiting from it in designing programs Other. (Published abstract)