A New Computer Application for Innovation and Evaluation in Counseling

To measure the effect of counselling, outcome measures are obtained after completion of a counseling session because measuring outcomes and changes that occur during and within the counseling session itself is problematic. This problem was addressed by a new method demonstrated with medical students.1 Rarely has a counseling session been documented by clients.2 Using the UfaceME® method, Clients or people acting as clients responded to a series of statements which were repeated every four minutes as they watched video-audio replay of their session. They then observed by viewing and rating a comparison of their responses with those of their counselor. This study shows the benefits of the UfaceME method as an application to measure change that occurs within a counseling session. Significant positive changes were demonstrated in clients’ perception and feelings towards the end of the session compared to the beginning. Implications and results to date include further counseling engagement, healthy behavioral and relational change, improved mental health, and improved self-awareness.

The employee's job satisfaction during pandemic covid-19 and the counselor's role

Many employees can not work as usual, even having to lose work due to the Covid-19 Pandemic. Generally, employees have difficulty adapting to the demands that all are done at home or better known as Work From Home. In this situation, employees need to continue to work in the company or its organization while paying attention to health protocols that the Government has established. However, this has an impact on job satisfaction and employee mental health. This manuscript analyzes the impact of the pandemic on employee performance and the role of counselors in optimizing mental health. Many employees feel that their work must be more extra to meet the needs of life to be fulfilled and how the level of work satisfaction of the employees themselves in the face of this COVID-19 pandemic. Here also required an expert or counselor to know the job satisfaction of the employees themselves so that they can still provide services or the best results for the company and himself.

The suffering of a victim of child sexual abuse

Stressful early life experiences may cause traumatic experience across the lifespan. The aim of this study was to explore a CSA female victim’s lived-experience. Interviews were conducted with this 13-year-old girl, N, using a case study approach. N was still a young child (seven years old) when her uncle started to rape her, and when she was 10 years old, her father raped her. Since her childhood, she has experienced complex and widespread consequences such as vaginal and abdominal pain, shivering, sleeping problems, digestive problems, back problems, emotional and cognitive problems such as she was thinking to commit suicide, scared that her uncle and father will come to her, dissociation, study problems and isolation. N’s situation, might reflect similar problems in other female CSA victims.

‘I Care, You Deserve’ Module in helping pedophilia victims

‘I Care, You Deserve’ Module is a module for pedophilia victims. This module has been developed based on the research findings on the effects of pedophilia to the victims. This module includes four main aspects which are spiritual, cognitive, emotion and behaviour. Pre and post-module on the psychological well-being level has been done to test the effectiveness of the module application. The result shows that this module is helpful in providing improvement to the victims for their well-being.

Cinema education method, is it work for group guidance and counseling?

Group guidance and counseling services are services provided to students to develop life skills both academically and non-academically. Group guidance and counseling services are intended to develop attitudes and behaviors that bring goodness to students. The cinema education method is a method that uses film media to provide group guidance and counseling services. The cinema education method can be a means to help students understand their living conditions, the needs they want to fulfill, and can provide a perception that sees that everything or problems has a way out. Learning experiences obtained from films can help students develop ideas or solutions to help themselves.

Contribution of parental social support and self-control to student truancy behavior

This study aims to analyze the contribution of parental social support and self-control both individually and collectively on student truancy behavior. This research uses descriptive correlational quantitative method. The study population was vocational high school students Muhammadiyah 1 Padang registered in the odd semester of the school year 2020/2021 as many as 447 students. The research sample was 127 students, who were selected by purposive sampling technique. The instrument uses a parental social support scale, self-control scale and the results of student absenteeism recapitulation. The research data were analyzed using descriptive correlational statistics and multiple regressions. The research findings proved that parental social support and self-control simultaneously contributed to student truancy behavior as much as 44.5%. The implication of the results of this study can be used as input for creating guidance and counseling service programs in preventing and reducing truancy in students.

The meaning of youth life in traffic violation prevention

The high rate of traffic violations and accidents among adolescents is a real problem, especially when no effective solution has been found to reduce these violations. In fact, from year to year, cases of traffic violations among teenagers are increasing. The purpose of this study is to measure the meaning of adolescent life in traffic violation prevention. This type of research is a descriptive study with a quantitative approach, using a data collection tool in the form of a meaningful life questionnaire with a validity greater than 0.361 and a reliability of 0.964. The subjects of this study were vocational high school students. Subjects were taken using simple random sampling technique. This study uses data analysis techniques with descriptive analysis. The results of this study indicate that the meaning of student life consists of various aspects. Each aspect has a different percentage. The aspect of freedom of will has the lowest percentage of 10%, the aspect of decency of life has a percentage of 12%, the aspect of attitude towards death has a percentage of 23% and the aspect of purpose / meaning of life has the highest percentage of 42%. The results of this study can be used as information for counseling teachers or counselors as a basis for efforts to provide assistance to students to increase the meaning of life in order to prevent negative behavior, one of which is traffic violations that often occur in adolescents.

Students discipline problems perception of counseling services: a qualitative analysis

This study aims to discuss the perceptions of high school students towards guidance and counseling services. The aim of this study is to identify students’ perceptions of counseling sessions and to identify the services that students prefer. The sample of this study is 4 students comprising form four and five who attend national school from a famous Tuition Center in Butterworth, Penang. This study used interview sessions to collect data. The interview protocol comprises 10 unstructured questions that include the student’s background, situation at home, the reasons they do not see the counselor and the student’s choice of services other than counseling. We conducted theme analysis based on the respondents’ feedback. The results showed that students had a negative perception regarding meetings with counselors.

The Contribution of Self-Regulation and YouTube Users To Risky Sexual Behavior for Boarding House Students

Early adulthood is a time when students tend to want to know something new, including sexual behavior, the lack of information about the sexual behavior makes students engage in risky sexual behavior.The factors for risky sexual behavior are self-regulation and YouTube users.The purpose of the study is to describe the contribution of self-regulation to risky sexual behavior, the contribution of self-regulation to risky sexual behavior, and the contribution of both variables to risky sexual behavior. The population in this study was 330 students in the eastern freshwater villages of Padang city and a sample of 60 people using purposive sampling techniques.The instruments used were self-composed instruments, namely self-regulation instruments, YouTube users and risky sexual behavior using a Likert scale model.Data Scale model analyzed with quantitative descriptive methods, simple regression, and multiple regression. Analysis of the data showed that there was a self-regulation contribution to risky sexual behavior by 70%, YouTube users' contribution to risky sexual behavior by 74%, contribution self-regulation and YouTube users' to risky sexual behavior by 77.4%.Based on the results of this study can later develop a program or technique in guidance and counseling that can assist students in avoiding risky sexual behavior.

Curriculum framework for employability readiness skills: sustainable industry engagement

In spite of endeavors to expand the idea of graduate employability, there stays an overall spotlight on creating industry-pertinent employability abilities. The Work- Based Learning approach is found completely catch the multifaceted nature of graduate work-availability. This paper contends for the reclassifying of graduate employability by grasping industrial skills development and identifies with a comprehension of and association with the aptitudes, characteristics, lead, culture and belief system of an expected calling. The partnership model is attracted upon to show how WBL can be designed and created during internship by involving curriculum reform and mapping. The aim of this study is to reduce the skills gap between institution and industry by designing additional curriculum. These programmes are viewed as significant in light of the fact that they encourage students’ access to work-based learning activities in polytechnics and work-based opportunities such as placements after completed the internship.