The Effectiveness of a Counseling Program Based on Psychodrama in Reducing Disruptive Behavior and Developing Social Skills Among Learning Disabled Students in Bani-Obeid District

Abstract

This study aimed at finding out the effectiveness of psychodrama based counseling program in reducing disruptive behavior and the development of social skills among learning disabled students at Bani-obeid district. The study was carried out on a sample of (24) male learning disabilities students, who were assigned to two equal groups (12) for the experimental and (12) for the control group. To achieve the study aims, this study used two scales: one for measuring disruptive behavior and another for measuring social skills were constructed as well as a psychodrama based counseling program was developed. Means, standard deviations, MANCOVA and ANCOVA were used in data analysis. Results showed statistically significant difference at (α = 0.05) level, between groups, in favour of experimental group, in reducing disruptive behavior and the development of social skills on the total score and on the sub-dimensions