The Effectiveness of Client-Centered Therapy in Reducing Feelings of Psychological Loneliness Among Divorced Women in Baghdad Governorate

Abstract

The research aimed to determine the effectiveness of client-centered therapy in reducing the feeling of psychological loneliness among divorced women in Baghdad, as divorce is considered one of the social problems that all societies suffer from as a result of its negative effects that go beyond the husband, wife, and children to include the entire society. Official statistics indicate that there are global and local variables at the present time that lead to an increase in divorce rates worldwide, which constitutes the nucleus of therapeutic programs targeting this group. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to know the extent to which the effectiveness of treatment around the client benefits in reducing the feeling of psychological loneliness in the patient. Divorced women. Therefore, the methodology for collecting data for the current research is a quasi-experimental design with an initial test, a post-test, and a follow-up test, with two experimental and control groups. The basic research sample consisted of (40) divorced women according to the scores they obtained from the Psychological Loneliness Scale. The scale was distributed to three participants. Several times in the pre-test, post-test, and follow-up test (less than 60 days), the statistical package (SPSS) was used in the analysis, as the results of the study found that there were statistically significant differences in the levels of psychological loneliness between the scores of the experimental group and the control group for the scale in the post-test, and in favor of the experimental group. The results of the study revealed that there were no statistically significant differences in the levels of psychological loneliness between the scores of the experimental group on the follow-up test measures, and the study reached the following conclusions: divorced women suffering from the negative effects of divorce, including an increase in their level of psychological loneliness, and the effectiveness of the counseling program in reducing psychological loneliness among them. Divorced women.