The influence of personal and multicultural wisdom on the adherence to the ethical principles of multicultural counselor’s candidates

The excellent performance of multicultural counselors are influenced by wisdom and counselor adherence to ethical principles. This study is to examine the influence of personal wisdom and multicultural wisdom on the adherence to the ethical principles of multicultural counselor’s candidates. This study used a correlational method with 517 counselor’s candidates from 11 Guidance and Counseling Departments in Indonesian. The research data was collected by using Three-Dimensional Wisdom Scale-Short Form, the Wisdom Scale for Multicultural Counselors, and the Counselor’s Principles of Ethical Scale. The data analysis technique used correlation and multiple linear regressions. The results show that there was a significant positive effect between personal wisdom and multicultural wisdom on adherence to the ethical principles of multicultural counselor’s candidates. The implication is that counselor educators need to facilitate the development of personal wisdom and multicultural wisdom to increase adherence to the ethical principles in counseling education and supervision.

Pathological internet use in adolescents

Internet addiction, which is one of the handicaps seen as a result of modern lifestyle and technological development, can be defined as the inability to prevent the desire to use the internet excessively and the need for more and more time spent on the internet. Rather than banning the internet entirely, controlling its use is a more appropriate option. As in all addictions, when the problem cannot be solved, it is important to benefit from medical and cognitive therapies and, when appropriate, child and adolescent mental health counseling.

Contribution of parental attention and learning motivation to career planning of vocational school students

Ideally, vocational high schools are able to produce graduates who can immediately enter the world of work. However, the reality is that there are still vocational high school graduate students who are still unemployed after graduating, this is because students do not prepare career plans beforehand. This type of research is quantitative with a correlational descriptive approach. The sample in this study amounted to 32 vocational students who were determined using purposive sampling. The instrument used was a parental attention questionnaire, a learning motivation questionnaire and a student career planning questionnaire. In addition, researchers also used a Likert scale model instrument. The analysis technique used is simple regression and multiple regression. The research results found that; 1) parental attention contributes significantly to student career planning, 2) learning motivation contributes significantly to student career planning, and 3) parental attention and learning motivation together contribute significantly to student career planning.

Functional Constipation Frequency in Children Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Aim: In our study, we aimed to determine the frequency of functional constipation in children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders by child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health.Materials and Methods: Between September 2017 and September 2018, children with autism spectrum disorder who applied to BakırköySadiKonuk Education and Research Hospital Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic were evaluated by means of childhood autism rating scale (CARS). A total of 108 patients were evaluated with the Roman IV criteria and the frequency of functional constipation was investigated.Results: A total of 108 cases, 87% (n = 94) male and 13% (n = 14) female, were studied. The ages of the patients were between 2 and 15 years and the mean age was 6.89 ± 2.76. Organic constipation was not detected in patients with constipation and all of them were diagnosed as functional constipation. There was no statistically significant difference between the rates of functional constipation in cases according to gender. The incidence of functional constipation in males was significantly higher in patients with severe autism than in those with mild to moderate autism. “Two or fewer defecations in the toilet per week” criteria was found significantly higher in girls than in boys. No significant difference was found for the other five criteria according to gender. Each of the six criteria of the Rome IV criteria were found to be significantly higher in patients with severe autism than those with mild to moderate autism according to CARS scores. One of the Roman IV criteria, “History of large diameter stools that may obstruct the toilet” was found significantly higher in patients aged nine years and older. No significant correlation was found between the other criteria and age groups.Conclusion: All of the six criteria of the Roman IV criteria were significantly higher in cases with severe autism according to CARS, compared to those with mild to moderate autism.

Group Counseling to Reduce Academic Stress in Senior High School Students

The objective of the study is to determine the effect of group counseling on academic stress of senior high school students. Academic stress is a student's response to academic demands that cannot be prevented, avoided or controlled. Respondents in this study were four senior high school students who had high academic stress scores. This study used a quasi-experimental one-group pretest-posttest design. Researchers measured respondents' academic scores before and after the group counseling was given. Researchers used the Educational Stress Scale for Adolescents (ESSA) to measure the academic stress of respondents. The treatment given, which was group counseling, was given in five sessions. Researchers used anava repeated measures to analyze the data. From the statistical analysis conducted, it can be concluded that group counseling has a significant effect on reducing the academic stress of the research respondents. From the results of this study, researchers suggest that group counseling is effective for reducing academic stress in senior high school students.

Exploration of aggressive behavior among adolescent in Indonesia

Aggressive behaviour is one of the problems which have a negative impact on adolescents, especially on their development process. This study aims to determine the extent to which students' aggressive behaviour is predictable by gender and domicile origin. The participants of this study were a total of 2681 Indonesian teenagers aged 14-20 years, that anonymously and voluntarily filled out this instrument. The instrument used was the AF Aggressive Behaviour Instrument Scale (AFABIS), which has been tested for validity and reliability with a significance of 0.08. Furthermore, data testing was carried out using network psychometrics and Rasch analysis. The results from the network psychometrics analysis showed that there was a good structure of participants in terms of gender and domicile origin (city, suburban, rural) and a significant difference in aggressive behaviour as seen from the sparsity that was raised. The results showed that male adolescents tend to show more aggressive behaviour compared to females. Furthermore, it showed that the tendency of displaying aggressive behaviour by adolescents in rural areas is more tenuous compared to those in suburbs of cities and cities. These results may be used as initial data by counselors for psychological intervention on aggressive behaviour featured by adolescents.

Stress and anxiety among adolescents, during the covid-19 outbreak

Covid-19 affects every aspect of human life, especially psychological aspects. Furthermore, adolescents experience difficulties because of the pandemic and therefore require extra change due to the occurring situation. In this situation, adolescents felt stress from having to adjust to the unpredictable situation, as well as anxiety, from facing an uncertain situation. Meanwhile, from the previous year, the news has been updated daily, concerning the number of deaths and positive cases. Teens are able to access news through the internet by listening, watching or imagining the current situation. This study used Indonesian adolescent as the research subjects and was conducted online through survey Monkey platform. A total of 98 participants aged above 17 years were obtained from several provinces and region in Indonesia. In addition, the study used DASS as the instrument of research DASS, while the data was analyzed using JASP. According to the results, the stress and anxiety of adolescents during the covid-19 outbreak are in the heavy and very heavy categories, respectively, indicating tremendous pressure is experienced due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The correlation cetween children’s song and memorizing vocabulary to young learner as foreign language on kindergarten

The problems in this research is children’s song related to memorize vocabulary to young learner and how how significance is the correlation between children song and memorizing vocabulary to young learner as foreign language of kindergarten PKK Polagan Pamekasan Madura. This research used quantitative approach, while the kind of research used non-experimental design that is correlation design. Population of this research is all of the students in TK PKK Polagan Pamekasan 2020/2021 that consist of 28 students. The obtained data from questionnaire, test and documentation. The obtained data analyzed by using statistical analysis that used product moment. The result of this study showed that the use of children song related to memorizing vocabulary to young learner as foreign language of kindergarten PKK Polagan Pamekasan. This case has proven from the result of “r” value is 0.711 higher than “r” table in level significance 5% and 1% with N = 28 is 0.374 and 0.478 and it is proven from the interpretation of “r” product moment that the result is between 0,600 – 0,800 in the level of enough correlation. Based on the result above, the researcher concludes that children song can use as strategy in vocabulary learning. This can make the students interest to study and make the students easy to memorize of vocabulary.

Effects of cognitive cehavioral play therapy techniques on low self-esteem among students

This study aims to determined the effects of Cognitive Behavioral Play Therapy (CBPT) techniques on low self-esteem among UNIMAS Students. More specifically, this study identified the effects of Cognitive Behavioral Play Therapy (CBPT) techniques in experimental group at pretest and posttest on low self-esteem among UNIMAS students and to identified the effects of Cognitive Behavioral Play Therapy (CBPT) techniques in control group at pretest and posttest on low self-esteem among UNIMAS students. A case study design is distributed questionnaire called as Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) and counselling sessions. Purposive sampling is used to get the most suitable respondents for this study. The findings of this study have revealed there were significant difference at pretest and posttest among respondents in experimental group and control group which were respondents in experimental group increased their level of self-esteem, while there were respondents decreased their level of self-esteem in control group. Counselling sessions utilizing Cognitive Behavioral Play Therapy (CBPT) techniques have increased the level of self-esteem among UNIMAS students in experimental group who attended the group counselling sessions because they have low level of self-esteem. All the dialogues that been stated by the client in the counselling sessions about their self-esteem can be related to respondents’ personality, cognitive, behavior, emotions and actions. The findings of this study have implications towards University students and counsellor. As for the university students, they gained insight, understanding and knowledge the importance of having good level of self-esteem. For the counsellor, counsellor being helpful, trusted and skillful which after utilized the CBPT techniques, they gained new skills and knowledge on that particular therapy.