The Effectiveness of Positive Psychological Counseling in Developing Psychological Empowerment among a Sample of Abused Women

Abstract

The current study aimed to verify the effectiveness of a counseling program based on some positive psychology techniques in developing psychological empowerment among a sample of abused women, and to track its continued effectiveness after the follow-up period. To achieve this goal, the quasi-experimental approach was used by designing the experimental and control groups within the framework of pre-, post-, and follow-up measurements, and by applying the psychological empowerment scale for abused women and the positive psychological counseling program, both prepared by the researcher, to a sample of (22) abused women in Cairo Governorate in Egypt. The results indicated that the counseling program used in this study succeeded in achieving its aims.