Impact of Obsessive- Compulsive Disorder in term of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) on Economic Wellbeing of Tribal Women at Kodaikanal Hills

Abstract

To study aimed to examine the impacts of rational emotional behavioural therapy on obsessive compulsive disorder of women working in coffee plantations of Kodaikanal. The case study is based on the ten tribal women working in the coffee plantations of the Kodaikanal. The tribal women are undergoing significant psychological and physical issues based on the OCD. The obsessive compulsive disorder is examined with “The Padua Inventory Scale by Ezio Sanavio” which measures their OCD level of tribal women working in the coffee plantations. The study involved ten tribal women segmented into two groups and these two groups were subjected to counseling based on the REBT methods. The Padua Inventory Scale by Ezio Sanavio” was used for assessing the OCD of tribal women. The before and after effects of the counseling therapy was examined using the paired t-test. The analysis was done based using the statistical software of SPSS – 20. The study found that effort of REBT was initiated by the researcher which is found to successful among the very low group which found the therapy is significant effect in returning to normalcy. The OCD is considerably declined among the tribal women workers in the study area based on the therapies given under the REBT regime. The implementation of this regime will improve psychological well being of the workers in the coffee plantation and also improve their efficiency at workplace.