The Psychological status of and the feeling of loneliness of the trainees (newly released Detainees) participating the training and rehabilitation courses

Abstract

The research aims to understand the psychological status of and the feeling of loneliness of the trainees (recently released detainees) participating in the training and rehabilitation courses held in the Technical College - Baghdad. The study was conducted on a specimen of (23) trainees. An open questionnaire was adopted which included one question that was ( What was your feeling psychologically and socially before taking part in the training course?) , also the feeling of  loneliness Scale , designed by ( Russel,Peplau, Cutrona /University of California Los Angeles ) was implemented after the courses .

                The results showed that they were suffering from bad psychological status before joining the training and rehabilitation course, while the results showed that the trainees had lesser feeling of loneliness after the courses.