أثر برنامج إرشاد جمعي في خفض الانطوائية وتحسين الفاعلية الذاتية لدى المراهقين في الأسر المعطلة وظيفيا
This study sought to explore the effect of group counseling program in reducing introversion and improving Self-Efficacy among adolescents in dysfunctional families. The purposive sample consisted of (40) students were chosen from a school in Amman and whom their ages ranged between 13-15 years old, were children of families characterized by a lack of affection and sclerosis and conflicts existing imbalance in family roles and the lack of clarity of rules, and who reported that they suffer from a high degree of Introversion and low degree of Self-Efficacy. Participants were randomly assigned either to experimental (no=20) group who participated in the counseling program or a control (no=20) group for which the counseling program was not provided. The psychometric indicators of psychological Introversion and Self-Efficacy were extracted on an exploratory sample of 40 male student from the same study population, which proved to be valid and reliable. The design and construction of the group counseling to program the perspective of cognitive behavioral therapy. The group counseling program consisted of (12) sessions. With two sessions per week and session length ranged from 45 minutes to an hour. The results from this study indicated that there were statistically significant differences at the level of (α = 0.05) between average of the experimental group and the control group scores in the post-test on the scale of Introversion and the scale of Self-Efficacy and its two sub-scales (the social acceptance, General Effectiveness) in favor of the experimental group. additionally, results showed that there were statistically significant differences at the level of (α =0.05) between average of the experimental group in the post-follow-up test scores on the scale of Introversion and the scale of Self-Efficacy and its two sub-scales (the social acceptance, General Effectiveness), Indicating that the participants retained the therapeutic gains achieved in the subsequent test and the continuation of this improvement in the post-follow-up test. These findings confirm that counseling groups may be effective in helping male adolescents growing up in dysfunctional families who face psychological and social problems such as introversion and low self-efficacy such as participants in the study, and that such groups should be systematically designed and applied within The Jordanian school environment, with the possibility of providing family counseling services aimed at members of the full family of families, parents, brothers and sisters living in these troubled families. Researchers may conduct similar future studies aimed at Helping students of both sexes in other age groups. (Author’s abstract)