Effectiveness of Counseling Psychology Programme to develop the Social Responsibility of Secondary School Students
Abstract in English:
This study aims at identifying the effectiveness of counseling
psychology programme to develop the social responsibility of
secondary school students. The main reason for carrying out this
study is the need to establish a counseling psychology programme
which can help develop the social responsibility of students, in
general, and secondary school students, in particular .The researcher
divided his study into five chapters. The first chapter discusses the
main question which states: “How effective is the counseling
psychology programme to develop the social responsibility of the
secondary school students. The second chapter focuses on the
theoretical framework and it is divided into two sections. The first
one discusses the ‘responsibility’ in its broad sense in addition to the
concept of ‘social responsibility’. Then the researcher discusses the
responsibility from a religious perspective. Next to that, he
demonstrates the importance of social responsibility, its elements and
the factors and institutions which help develop social responsibility.
The second section focuses on counseling psychology and it discusses
the concept and the general goals of counseling psychology. After
that, the researcher presents some of the counseling theories, the
methods of and strategies of counseling. Then he presents the guiding
and counseling psychology from an Islamic perspective. Besides, the
researcher discusses the counseling programme, its content, goals,
stages, number of sessions, technical tools used and evaluation . In
the third chapter, the researcher discusses previous Arabic and non-
Arabic studies. In the fourth chapter, he presents the study
procedures where he uses the experimental method, in which he
considers the effectiveness of counseling psychology as an
independent factor and the social responsibility as an dependent
factor. Then the researcher conducts an anterior measurement of
social responsibility which was set him on the groups. Then he
divided the students into two equal groups: the experimental and the
controlled where the first one was provided with counseling
psychology programme designed by the researcher. The programme
includes 13 counseling sessions, each lasts 40 to 45 minutes. At the
end of the programme, the researcher carried out a posterior testing
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on both samples in order to find out the impact resulted on the
experimental group.
In the last chapter, the researcher presents the findings and their
analysis which showed the following.
1- There are no statistical differences between the average marks of
the students of the controlled sample before and after the application
2- There are no statistical of the counseling psychology programme.
differences between the average marks of the students of the
experimental and the controlled samples before conducting the
programme.
3-However, there are statistical differences between the average
marks of the students of the experimental group after conducting the
programme in favour of the posterior testing.
4- Also, there are statistical differences between the average marks of
both samples in accordance to social responsibility after carrying out
the programme in favour of the experimental sample.
Finally, the researcher concludes his study with a number of
recommendations and suggestions which help develop social
responsibility.