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Eman P. Bakr Asst.Prof.Dr. Araz H. Ridha

Abstract

The current research aims to identify the effectiveness of a counseling program (cognitive - behavioral) in reducing self-stigma and developing social communication skills for adolescent students with speech and language disorders. This is done by verifying the validity of the following hypotheses: There are no statistically significant differences at the level of significance (0.05) between the mean scores of the experimental group members in reducing self-stigma and developing social communication skills before and after the application of the counseling program. The counseling program does not achieve its effectiveness in reducing self-stigma and developing social communication skills among the experimental group members. The current research was limited to adolescent students with speech and speech disorders in Chamchamal District Center during the year (2021-2022). The researchers used the quasi-experimental approach, and the research sample consisted of (12) students, 6 males and 6 females, where the researchers placed all of them within one experimental group in order to apply the program to them. The researchers adopted a counseling program (cognitive - behavioral) in order to reduce self-stigma and develop social communication skills, as well as to extract the honesty of the program, and the number of sessions was (16), and the duration of each session (45 minutes), with two sessions per week. The researchers used the (Abu Sbeitan, 2014) scale to measure self-stigma, and the (Al-Halabi, 2016) scale to measure social communication skills, after extracting their validity and reliability. The researchers used the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) to analyze the research data. The results of the research concluded: There are statistically significant differences at the level of significance (0.05) between the mean scores of the experimental group members in reducing self-stigma and developing social communication skills, and that the use of the counseling program is effective in reducing self-stigma and developing social communication skills.

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Bakr, E. P. ., & Ridha, A. A. H. (2023). (The Effectiveness of a Counseling Program (Cognitive - Behavioral) in Reducing Self-Stigma and Developing Social Communication Skills for Adolescent Students with Articulation and Speech Disorders). Polytechnic Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 4(2), 91–106. https://doi.org/10.25156/ptjhss.v4n2y2023.pp91-106

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