The Effectiveness of the Cognitive Behavioral Counseling Program in Reducing Psychological Stress among Mothers of Autistic Children

Abstract

The study aimed to build a behavioral cognitive counseling program to reduce psychological stress in a sample of mothers of autistic children, the study sample consisted of (10) mothers in the Amman,and divided the sample into two groups equally experimental and officer, using a scale psychological stress preparation (Elshakhs, Saratawi, 1998) The program was applied to the experimental group only, which consisted of (13) sessions, at the rate of two sessions per week. the results show the effectiveness of the program in lowering the psychological pressure of the experimental group versus the control group,the absence of statistically significant differences between the members of the experimental group and the post in dimensional and follow-up measurement.