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The study aimed to identify the effectiveness of a behavioral counseling program's in reducing aggressive behavior among children with mild mental disabilities at the Mu'tah Center for Special Education. The study sample consisted of (10) male and female students with mild mental disabilities, whose ages ranged between (10-14) years. The one group system (the experimental group) was used. The list of aggressive behavior was applied to the study sample in three stages: The first stage was a baseline (pre-test) and lasted a week, and the second stage was a stage after the completion of the application of the guidance program (post-test), where it lasted for six weeks, while the third stage was the (follow-up measurement) phase, which was carried out two months after stopping the implementation of the program, the repetitions of aggressive behavior were counted. The study used the Wilcoxon Matching Pairs Signed test to calculate the differences between the mean of the pre-test scores and the mean of the post/test scores. The study found the following results: There were differences between the study sample members in the two measurements (pre and post) in the relative weight of the study sample and in favor of the post-test, which indicates the effectiveness of the behavioral counseling program. The results also indicate no statistical differences between the study sample members in the two measures (post and follow up), which indicates the continuity of the effectiveness of the behavioral counseling program.

This study aimed at identifying the effectiveness of a realistic counselling programme for developing taking responsibility among a sample of hearing-impaired students. The sample consisted of 26 hearing-impaired students. To verify the effectiveness of the programme, the participants were randomised equally into two groups: the experimental group 13 male and female students who underwent the realistic programme and 13 students within the control group who were not subjected to the counselling programme. The researchers developed a valid and reliable scale to measure taking responsibility to achieve the purposes of this study. The findings indicated that the level of taking responsibility for the hearing-impaired students expected to graduate from the Jordanian universities was moderate, and there were significant differences between the post-test performance mean scores of the participants in the experimental and control groups in taking responsibility in favour of the experimental group due to the counselling programme.   Keywords: Counselling programme, hearing impaired, realistic therapy, taking responsibility, Jordan.