A Proposed Program for Developing Early Divorced Women’s Life Skills: A Social Service Perspective

Abstract

The present research aims to propose a program, from a social service perspective, to develop early divorced women’s life skills through identifying the most important life skills that should be developed among them, determining the nature of social services provided to them for developing their life skills, and to identify the obstacles hindering social services from playing their roles in this regard. To achieve the research objective, the author adopted the descriptive analytical method, designed a scale for life skills applied to (100) early divorced women, and distributed a questionnaire to a sample of female faculty members, social specialists and managers to identify the social services provided to the early divorced women. The research results showed that the skills of problem solving, decision making, and critical thinking were highly available among the early divorced women while communication and interpersonal skills were the lowest available ones. The results also identified the social services provided to the early divorced women to contribute to the development of their life skills and the most prominent obstacles that prevent social services from playing their roles in developing those skills. Some recommendations have been made including continuing to intensively hold training courses and workshops for the early divorced women and qualifying them for developing their own life skills.