The suggestibility among social work students and its relationship to the family climate

This study was designed according to the analytical descriptive method, and aimed to identify the level of suggestibility and the family climate among social work students and the relationship between them, as well as to identify the significance of differences in the suggestibility and family climate according to some personal, academic and family variables, the study was applied to a random sample of (475) Students, and the researcher used the measure of suggestibility prepared by kotova (2004) translated by Al-Shorbaji and Al-Harbi (2016), and the family climate scale prepared by Kafafi (2010), and the results indicated that social work students have a medium degree of suggestibility and their family climate is normal. Statistically significant relationship between suggestibility and family climate, as the results indicated that there are no statistically significant differences in suggestibility due to gender or years of study in college, while there are differences in suggestibility due to age, and there are no differences in family climate due to The father’s education or the number of family members, while there are statistically significant differences in the family climate due to the mother’s education and the arrangement between the brothers. The study recommends measuring the suggestibility of social work students before they graduate from college and designing professional intervention programs to decrease the suggestibility and develop their critical thinking. It also recommends researching the suggestibility and its relationship to the level of skills and problems facing social workers when working with individual cases in different fields of practice.