English abstract
The current study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of a group
counselling program based on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) in
improving the body image of adolescent female students in the tenth grade in
Muscat Governorate. The body image scale and the group counselling
program based on acceptance and commitment therapy were used to achieve
the study objective. The program consisted of ten sessions, two sessions per
week. The research used the semi-experimental approach in two equal
groups, with pre, post, and follow-up tests. Sixteen female adolescent
students were involved purposely in the study procedures from the tenth
grade, which was distributed equally randomly into two groups, one of them
was an experimental group that participated in a group counselling program
based on acceptance and commitment therapy, and a control group, which
was used for comparison purposes. The results of the study showed that there
were statistically significant differences between the average ranks of the
scores of the experimental group members in the pre-and post-tests of the
body image scale in favor of the post-test. There were statistically significant
differences between the average ranks of the degrees of the experimental and
control groups in the post-test of the body image scale in favor of the
experimental group. The results revealed that the positive effects of the
counselling program were sustained after one month follow-up period.
