الملخص الإنجليزي
The purpose of this study is to build a group-counseling program and investigate its effectiveness in reducingthe sense of shyness among the ninth-grade female students in the state of Bahla in Sultanate of Oman.The study sample consisted of the entire ninth-grade female students in the state of Bahlareaching a number of (102) female student. Moreover, a measurement of shyness reduction by Aldoraini (1998) was applied to those female students and the results found that out of (102) female students, only (42) female students have a low grade of shyness. Then, they have been divided into two groups (Control and experimental) each of which consists of 21 female students. A counseling program was applied to the experimental group, which consists of 21 counseling sessions with two sessions a week, which were prepared by the researcher.
The results indicated that there are differences with statistical significance in a significance level (0.05<a) for the total sum of the shyness levels between both the Pre application and Post application were in favor of the Post-Application, which means the effectiveness of the group-counseling program in reducing shyness among the ninth grade students in the state of Bahla
