Developing psychological Hardness to Improve positive coping with stress among a sample of obsessive-compulsive Disorder Patients.

The present study aimed to identify the effectiveness of a Counseling Program to Development Psychological Hardiness to Improve positive coping with stress among a sample of obsessive-compulsive Disorder patients , the sample of these study contain Two group : experimental group (N=9) patients,and control group (N=9 ) patients, so that, this study depended on Two scales (psychological Hardiness Prepared by Researcher , and Scale of positive coping with stress Prepared by Researcher) ,the Results show that The program has succeeded in the Development of psychological Hardiness for obsessive-compulsive Disorder Patients and this program has succeeded to improve positive coping with stress for obsessive-compulsive disorder patients, the Results also showed there are statistical differences between the pre and post test of the experimental sample on study scales toward Post test, the Results Indicate there are statistical differences between experimental group and Control group on study scales toward experimental group,Finally there were no statistical differences between the post and follow up test of the experimental sample on study scales.
Key Words :psychological Hardness -positive coping - obsessive-compulsive disorder.