The Effectiveness of a Counseling Program Based on Humanistic Therapy to Reduce Situational Remorse, Guilt and Pessimism among a Sample of Students of Disintegrated Families

Abstract

The current study aimed to reveal the effectiveness of a counseling program based on humanistic therapy to reduce situational remorse, guilt and pessimism among a sample of students of disintegrated families. The sample of the study consisted of (26) students.  Measurements for situational remorse, guilt and pessimism were developed. The validity and reliability of their psychometric characteristics were verrified, and a counseling program based on the humanistic theory was built. The results of the study showed that there were statistically significant differences in the ranks of the mean scores of feelings of situational remorse, guilt and pessimism in the experimental group in the post-measurement compared with the control group, and that there are no differences between the mean scores of the experimental group in the post and follow-up measurements in the scale of situational remorse, guilt and pessimism. The study came out with some recommendations, including the need to use the current counseling program in helping students to reduce each of the students' feelings of situational remorse, guilt and pessimism.