Effectiveness of virtual psychological counseling programs during the (COVID-19) pandemic

Abstract

This study aims to identify the effectiveness of a virtual psychological counseling program to activate psychological immunity during the Coronavirus pandemic among students of Mutah University in Jordan. The program was implemented during the second semester of 2019-2020 on a sample of 30 students over 6 weeks period. The results indicated a presence of statistically significant differences between the mean scores of the experimental and control groups on the psychological immunity scale after applying the virtual psychological counseling program in favor of the experimental group and between the mean scores of the experimental group before and after the implementation of the counseling program in favor of the post-measurement, the results showed that the members of the experimental group retained the effect after the follow-up measurement after 30 days from the end of the program of the psychological immunity program.