الملخص الإنجليزي
This study aims to design group counseling program to reduce the psychological stress that the mild mental disabilities bring to their families and also to train the mothers how to behave correctly with their children who have these problems. As result, this study aims to answer these questions:-
1- Are there any differences in (a ≤ 0.05) between the mother's figures in experimental and control group in psychological stress scale after applying the program?
2- Are there any differences in (a≤ 0.05) in the mother's figures in
experimental in psychological stress scale after applying the program and follow it up?
This study use experimental Design. The population of the study consisted of mothers who their children benefit from services of Organizations which help disabled children (of 465 children). The sample consisted of (20) mothers of mild mental disabilities in disabilities center in Jalan Bani bu Hassan. The sample was divided in two groups randomly: (10) in experimental group and (10) in control group.
The study tools:-
1- The scale of Psychological Stress with mothers's mild mental disabilities, (preparing of researcher) while the correlate is (0.94) and the reliability is (0.77).
2- Group Counseling Program: (preparing of researcher) the program has (13) weeks, each weak one lesson during (13) weeks. It was design by cognitive behavior theory and the researcher used lectures, problems solving, modeling, relaxation and home work assignments. Also researcher used Mann-Whitney and Wilcoxon-tests to show:
The results:-
1- There are differences in (a≤ 0.05) between the mother's figures in experimental and control group in Psychological stress after applying the program for the experimental group.
2- There are differences in (a≤ 0.05) between the mother's figures in experimental group in Psychological stress after applying the program and follow it up.
