جميل قاسم

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 ه 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.