? The Effectiveness of Cognitive ? Behavioral Counseling Program for "Face Book Addiction Disorder (FAD)" Treatment among Adolescents

The current study aims at revealing the effectiveness of a cognitive ? Behavioral Counseling program on reducing Facebook Addiction Disorder (FAD) among Adolescents. The Sample of the Study consists of (28) female students whose age ranges from (16 to 18) years and who scored the highest on the Facebook Addiction scale after administrating it. The Sample is randomly divided into two groups: An Experimental group and a control one. Each group includs (14) female students and both of them were equivalent. The researcher applies a pre-test on the two groups, the Facebook Addiction scale. The experimental group is exposed to the counseling program, which includes the behavioral and cognitive theory methods, the control group doesn't receive any training. After finishing the program, the post ? test was applied on the two groups. After two months from ending the program retention was estimated on the Facebook Addiction scale. The Study results show the following findings: There are statistically significant differences between the mean scores of the experimental group and that of the control one on Facebook Addiction scale in favor of the experimental group. Also there are statistically significant differences between the pre and the post administration among experimented group students in favor of the post administration, while there are no statistically significant differences between post and follow up measures among the experimental group students. The study concludes a positive effect to the counseling program, which is developed for Face Book Addiction Disorder (FAD) Treatment among Adolescents. The researcher recommendes that there is an interest in applying this program on different samples of youth and adolescents who suffer from addiction disorder on this website