The Comparisson between the effectiveness of cognitive therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy and short-term psychodynamic in reducing student's aggressive behavior and studying the effects of this reduction on their social adjustment

This paper aims at making a comparison between the effectiveness of cognitive therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy and short-term psychodynamic in reducing student's aggressive behavior as well as studying the effects of this reduction on their social adjustment. In this respect, nine hypotheses were formulated. The subjects consisted of 60 male and female PNU students selected randomly. The selection of the subjects was based on their scores on the aggression and social maladjustment questionnaire. The subjects were divided randomly into four groups: one control group and three experimental groups. Each gender group had separate experimental therapy for about 12 sessions, 90 minutes each: the experimental group 1, cognitive therapy, the experimental group 2, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and the experimental group 3, short-term psychodynamic. Once again, the students completed the above-mentioned questionnaire upon the termination of treatment. The SPSS software was used to analyze the data through the analysis of variance and the Tukey test. The outcomes showed that the differences were significant at. 05. Not only were the cognitive therapy, cognitivebehavioral therapy, and short-term psychodynamic effective in reducing student's aggressive behavior and social maladjustment, but also the cognitive-behavioral therapy proved to be more influential than the cognitive therapy and short-term psychodynamic in reducing student's aggressive behavior. However, there was no remarkable difference between the cognitive therapy and short-term psychodynamic in reducing the student's aggressive behavior.