فاعلية برنامج ارشاد جمعي في تنمية تقدير الذات لدى المعاقين بصرياً في سلطنة عمان
This study aimes to shoe the effectiveness of a group counseling program on developing self esteem for blind people in the Sultanate of Oman. It covers 30 blind people at the age of 14-20 studying in Omar bin Al-Khattab institution for blind people in the year 2009/ 2011. I attained about 30 teenagers from this institution. As a consequence, the researcher used self esteem measurement. Then, it has been actualized by showing it to some juelges. Moreover, validity measurement was taken out using Krobankh Alpha modulus and the validity percentage was 0.841 whereas pearson modulus was 0.911. In addition, a collective guidance program was designed for about 16 sessions based on behavioral, rational and emotional medication theory for Albirt Iliss and I used many strategies such as, role plays, discussions, conversations and homework. The sample group was devided into two groups, controlled and experimental group. Then I began doing the program for the experimental group which contains 15 teenagers in sessions a week, each session was for 60-90 minutes. Whereas no training was held for the other 15 from the controlled group. For data analysis, I have counted the average and the standard deviation for self esteem marks for both groups for the dimensional and continual measurement and use Mann-Whitney U Test in order to investigate the difference accurately between the two groups. The results have shown statistically significant differences between the two groups in self esteem marks. The experimental group got higher marks in this test because of the behavioral and emotional guidance program which they have been given. (Author’s abstract)