أثر برنامج إرشادي في خفض أعراض ما بعد الصدمة و تنمية الرضا عن الحياة لدى الطالبات اللاجئات السوريات

Abstract EN

This study aimed at identifying the impact of a counseling program on reducing the symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder and developing life satisfaction among the Syrian refugee female students in al-Karak governorate in the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan.

the study sample consisted of (30) female students who were selected to verify the efficacy of the program from the students that achieved the highest scores on the scale of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and the least scores on the scale of life satisfaction; those were distributed randomly to the control group and the experimental group.

the researchers developed two scales in order to measure the symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder and life satisfaction, and verified their validity and reliability.

the researchers also designed a program based on selective counseling, which consisted of (14) counseling sessions, each one of them lasted for (60) minutes and was held twice a week.the results showed that there were statistically significant differences between the mean performance of the two groups regarding the posttraumatic stress disorder as well as life satisfaction in the positive direction in favor of the experimental group for the post measurement, while the results showed that there were no statistically significant differences between the post and follow-up applications regarding the posttraumatic stress disorder as well as life satisfaction for the experimental group, indicating the continuous impact of the counseling program.

the study concluded with a number of recommendations, including the necessity of giving more attention for providing the counseling services for the refugee students and their parents so as to develop life satisfaction considering the current circumstances that they experience.