Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) is considered an effective therapy to ease loss-caused emotions among people affected by traumas.
The study is aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of TF-CBT to ease loss-caused emotions of Saudi female university students who are visually impaired and experienced bereavement emanating from the death of a parent, sibling, relative or friend. The study sample consisted of nine such students aged 18-25. They were evaluated using the Inventory of Complicated Grief before and after the intervention. The TF-CBT program consisted of 12 sessions (two sessions per week) of 60-90 minutes each. Wilcoxon’s Signed-Rank Statistical Test was applied to carry out the data analysis. The results showed that TF-CBT effectively eased loss-caused emotions among visually impaired female university students of Saudi Arabia, with the effects still being present two months after the completion of the study, which confirmed the long-term benefits of the applied therapeutic procedure.