The Effectiveness of an Integrated Counseling Program in Home Economics to Develop Emotional Thinking Skills and Awareness of Sustainable Development Issues among Preparatory Stage Students

The study aimed to measure the effectiveness of an integrated counseling program in home economics to develop emotional thinking skills and awareness of sustainable development issues among middle school students; with a sample consisting of (60) female students of the first year of middle school. They were divided into two control and experimental groups, each group (30) students. To achieve this, an integrated counseling program was built in home economics; an emotional thinking skills test; a measure of awareness of sustainable development issues. Therefore, it followed the descriptive approach and the quasi-experimental approach. The results resulted in: a statistically significant difference (at the level <= 0.01) between the mean scores of the students of the experimental and control groups in the post application of the scale of awareness of sustainable development issues for the benefit of the experimental group students ;; and the presence of a statistically significant difference (at the level <= 0.01) between The mean scores of the students of the experimental and control groups in the post application of the emotional thinking test in favor of the students of the experimental group ;; and the presence of a statistically significant difference (at the level <= 0.01) between the mean scores of the students of the experimental group in the pre and post application of the scale of sustainable development as a whole and at each of its components separately in favor of The post application ;; and the existence of a statistically significant difference (at the level <= 0.01) between the mean scores of the students of the experimental group in the pre and post application to test the emotional thinking skills as a whole and at each of its components separately in favor of the post application "and the presence of a statistically significant correlation relationship (at the level of <= 0.01) between the emotional thinking skills and awareness of sustainable development issues among middle school students; and the presence of The effectiveness of an integrated counseling program to develop awareness of sustainable development issues among middle school students ;; and the existence of an integrated counseling program for developing emotional thinking skills among middle school students..this reflects the effectiveness of using an integrated counseling program in home economics to develop emotional thinking skills; and awareness of sustainable development issues among female students middle School. Key words: the integrated counseling program; Affective thinking skills; Awareness of sustainable development issues