COUNS-EDU: The International Journal of Counseling and Education
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Does coping strategies have asignificant relationship with quality of life among caregivers of chronic illness patients?
Get PDFThe present study aimed to investigate the coping strategies and quality of life among caregivers of chronic illness patients. The study was conducted among the caregivers from five (5) villages in Sibu District of Sarawak by using a survey research design. A total of sixty seven (67) participants were participated in this study. Two different instruments were used to measure different types of variables. Research data collected was tested and analyzed by using a descriptive statistic and Pearson Correlation. The result revealed that there was a significant relationship between the coping strategies and the quality of life among caregivers of chronic illness patients. The relationship between both coping strategies and domains of quality of life was in a moderate level. As an implication, counselors should be more aware about the types of coping strategies used by the caregivers because it can affect the individual’s quality of life indirectly
The implementation of guided discovery learning method to improve student learning outcomes at electromagnetic control system and operation course
Get PDFThis research is triggered by the learning process that is still yet to direct the active role of students learning. Based on the result of observation that the teacher is more dominant in the activity of learning than the students due to the students were lack of understanding towards the subject matter resulted in the lack of activeness of students in the classroom. Based on the background study, it is needed to apply a method of learning that is able to enhance students’ activity and improving the score. One of them by applied the guided discovery learning method. The goal of this research is to know the learning outcomes improvement of the students when using guided discovery learning method on operated Electromagnetic Control System and Operation course in SMK Muhammadiyah Padang. The type of this research is quasi-experimental with one group pre-test post-test design. The population of this research was second year student of group one that registered at 2015/2016 academic year which 26 person of students. The instruments of research was objective tests that has been conducted a test of the validity, reliability, the difficulty level and the different index level. The data were analyzed by using gain score test. Based on the result, the students who achieve value of minimum completeness criteria (MCC) before using the guided discovery learning method was 7,7%. While the students who achieve minimum completeness criteria after using guided discovery learning method was 87,46%. Based on gained score test, the score of the students were increase in Middle Category. So, the implementation of guided discovery learning method can improve student learning outcomes on Electromagnetic Control System and Operation courses
The application of impact counseling in therapy started with individual counseling expressive to cope with the personal problems by college students
Get PDFVarious approaches and theory can be applied to help students to cope with personal problems; one approach that can be applied is the impact counseling. Impact Therapy is a teaching process that carried out by the counselor, where a counselor wrote and visualized to clients about what the client wants, the client will do, how clients assess their behavior and how clients to plan what to do next. This is illustrated by Ed Jacobs As WDEP (Want, Doing, Evaluate, and Plan). Before using the impact counseling for students who are not able to communicate the problems that they experienced first counselor implemented expressive therapy. Expressive therapy known as a therapy in counseling and psychotherapy in which the client can communicate and express its feelings and their thoughts through activities related to art, music, dance, drama, poetry, as well as games. Expressive therapy is also called the "Creative Arts Therapy". Especially art, music, drama and poetry.
Individual counseling to argue in social media
No full textThe purpose of this study is to improve students' argumentation skills in social media. The subjects were 20 students who were divided into two groups: the control group consisting of 10 people and the experimental group consisting of 10 people. The technique used was an quasi experiment with 10 interventions using individualized counseling services to the control group and experimental group. Based on the quasi experimental results by giving counseling to 20 students 10 times and analyzed, students' argumentation skill level increased after individual counseling. Shown with change of skill level of argumentation before treatment (preliminary evaluation) and after (final evaluation) as much as 90 points and through test using test with significance level 5% show t count = 7.077> t table = 2,179. Based on the results of these calculations, show that the hypothesis mentions individual counseling affect students' argumentation skills can be accepted
Mastery of primary school teacher pedagogy competency in curriculum 2013 implementation in Indonesia
Get PDFThis study aims to examine how the mastery of teacher pedagogy competence in the implementation of the curriculum 2013 in the Padang city. This research uses a quantitative approach by using purposive sampling technique. Piloting school in question is spread over a number of districts in Padang with a sample of 45 peoples. The results showed that in the mastery of pedagogy competence as 52.00% of teachers have been ready for the implementation of the curriculum 2013. Traced deeper through an interview obtained results that are a weakness of teachers less able in; (1) managing the class, (2) enabling students trough the learning process, (3) varying the learning strategy. It is recommended that the training provided to teachers more intensive and sustainable so that the mastery of pedagogical competence is more optimal.
The Indonesian version of irrational beliefs tests in rational emotive behavior therapy: adaptation of irrational beliefs tests
Get PDFThis Indonesian version of Irrational Beliefs Test (IV-IBT) measures the irrational thoughts in accordance with the irrational belief’s concept by Albert Ellis (Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy) and is the result from the language and cultural adaptation of Irrational Beliefs Test (IBT; Richard Garner Jones, 1968). There are 10 irrational thoughts contained in IBT namely demand for approval, high self-expectation, blame proneness, frustration reactive, anxious overcome, problem avoidance, dependency, helplessness, perfectionism. IBT consists of 100 items originating from 10 items for each type of irrational thoughts. The IBT adaptation process was conducted using the Guidelines for test translations (van de Vijver & Hambleton, 1996), and further elaborated into four major steps, namely (1) the translation from English into Indonesian by an expert in English language and a psychologist, and from Indonesian into English by two experts in English language, (2) content validity assessment by three assessors who master the REBT concepts and psychological measurement, (3) dimensionality examination with exploratory factor analysis, (4) empirical testing to obtain the accurate, adequate, and relevant item formulation involving 302 students. The Irrational Beliefs Test consists of 31 items, 10 factors, and is unidimensional (single dimension) in nature. Results and discussion are described in the Indonesian culture context
Learning strategy implementation of jigsaw to upgrade the academic competency of counselor candidate
No full textPeculiarly, the building of academic competency on counselor candidate needs to be gained through activity degree and student learning outputting class. Student academic competency in work skill on guidance and counseling course, notably in management and evaluation of guidance and counseling course require for having knowledge on theoretic treasures, context, principle, procedure and tools used in performing guidance and counseling service, also in developing professionalism as counselor on an ongoing basis by practicing guidance and counseling performance procedurally in school. Academic competency that will be gained by student can be categorized in three aspects of academic competency accomplishment, which are cognitive, affective, and psychomotor. The researcher concludes that the lack of those three aspects above caused by the learning process in class which is expository, that giving less attention on learning experience organization. So, the study content tends to be forgotten easily. The using of jigsaw learning is expected to facilitate e-learning experience organization of the student in improving academic competency of counselor candidate. Classroom action research is implemented in three cycles. The result gained in each cycle is increase gradually. Cycle I shows that the development of student academic competency is still on low rank, cycle II shows medium average development of student academic competency, cycle III shows that the average development of student academic competency is on high rank. The implementation this learning strategy can be used to improve the learning process by prioritizing on academic competency through study activity and learning output of the student. As the process improvement, the researcher focuses on student learning, so that the lecturer has the role as facilitator only
Psychosocial problems of schoolchildren and the psychological counseling approaches implicated by counselors for treating it
Get PDFThe aim of this study was to examine and evaluate the behavioral problems of schoolchildren in basic education stage and the psychological counseling approaches implicated by their counselor for treating it. In addition, assessing the differences in these approaches according to the variables of gender and educational qualification/degree. The sample consisted of (240) counselors (125 male, 115 female) enrolled from five educational administrations. The procedure has been used concluded Scale constructed for assessing the behavioral problems students and psychological counseling approaches used by counselors. The instrument's characteristics scored high level of validity and reliability. The findings showed that the most common behavioral problems were disobedience of teachers underachievement, aggression. In addition, the most counseling approaches used by counselors were individual and group counseling, Leisure time counseling, rational-emotive therapy, plying counseling, reality therapy, and client-centered therapy. According to the differences in counseling approaches relating to gender and academic qualification or degree of counselors, there were no significant differences except for the approaches of cognitive, behavioral and group counseling techniques and approaches
The construction and validation of solution-focused group work (SFGW) for Malaysian adolescents
Get PDFSolution-focused Group Work (SFGW) approach is proven to be effective in resolving adolescents’ life struggles and assist them to lead a successful adolescence hood. Common practices of developing the intervention module and assessing the module are presented in this study. The data was collected by two stages: (i) validation process by 4 counseling module development experts; and (ii) a total of 30 samples aged 14-15 years old was piloted to obtain the reliability score of SFGW. The collected data were subjected to descriptive test. The result yielded that SFGW have good validity and high reliability with Cronbach’s alpha of .87 and .94 respectively. Hence, it is concluded that SFGW is a valid and reliable module for adolescents who increases their self-efficacy, achievement motivation and goal-setting behaviors
Effectiveness of cognitive restructuring technique to reduce academic pracrastination of vocational high school students
No full textAcademic procrastination is a serious problem among student. Academic procrastination refers to delaying in doing assignments and preparing for examinations until the last period of examination time and submission date of assignments. To solve this problem we could use cognitive restructuring technique. The purposes of this research are to gain the description of academic procrastination decrease by implementing the cognitive restructuring technique. This research used a single subject research as the research design. The type of the single subject research which used in this research is multiple baselines. The result of this research shows that academic procrastination had significant decrease by implementation the cognitive restructuring technique. This research gives advice for two parts. First, it will be better if counselor implement the cognitive restructuring technique to decreasing academic procrastination. Second, it will be better if stakeholder of school gives support to counselor for implementation the cognitive restructuring technique to decrease academic procrastination