فاعلية برنامج إرشاد جمعي مستند للعلاج الوجودي في تحسين الصحة النفسية لدى طلبة جامعة عمان العربية

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This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of a group-counseling program based on existential therapy in improving mental health of Jordanian universities students.

This study followed the quasi-experimental design.

(19) undergraduate students from the faculty of Educational and Psychological Sciences at Amman Arab University participated in the study.

They were distributed randomly into two equal groups.

An experimental group includes (9) participants and a control group of (10) participants.

To achieve the objectives of the study, the researchers built a group counseling program based on existential therapy consisting of (12) sessions with a duration of (90) minutes per session, and developed a mental health scale consisting of (39) items distributed on four dimensions (comfort with self, satisfaction with others, Facing the demands of life, psychological safety).

The results of the statistical analysis indicated that there were statistically significant differences at the level (a = 0.05) between the arithmetic means of the members of the experimental group and the members of the control group on the post-measurement of the mental health scale in all its dimensions in favor of the experimental group, which indicated the effectiveness of the counseling program in improving the mental health of Amman Arab University students.

Therefore, the researchers recommended conducting more empirical research on the use of existential group counseling to improve the mental health of universities students, as well as examining its impact on multiple variables such as : gender, University year, and age.