Feelings and experiences of counseling practicum students and implications for counseling supervision

This study focuses on Counseling Practicum students’ feelings and experiences during the Bachelor in Education program at International Islamic University. The students, who were in Guidance and Counseling specialization, had to go through two phases of training; practicum for seven weeks and inte...

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Main Authors: Mansor, Norwati, Wan Yusoff, Wan Mazwati
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MCSER Publishing 2013
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spelling iium-402912015-10-29T07:34:42Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/40291/ Feelings and experiences of counseling practicum students and implications for counseling supervision Mansor, Norwati Wan Yusoff, Wan Mazwati LB1705 Education and training of teachers This study focuses on Counseling Practicum students’ feelings and experiences during the Bachelor in Education program at International Islamic University. The students, who were in Guidance and Counseling specialization, had to go through two phases of training; practicum for seven weeks and internship for fourteen weeks. These training periods provide them an opportunity to apply related theories and techniques that they had learnt during three to four years of their studies. The participants for this study consisted of ten third year students from Guidance and Counseling course. This qualitative research adopted students’ journals, group counseling supervision, documentations, case presentation and interviews as the data resources to reveal rich description of the students’ feelings and experiences. The findings indicate five main themes derived for discussion which include nervousness, ability and counseling skills, negotiating students’ or clients’ perceptions, lack of confidence in application of theories, and task completion. Further, this study provides an insight for supervisors to highlight issues and challenges in assisting future trainee counselors MCSER Publishing 2013-11 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/40291/1/mscerjurnal.pdf Mansor, Norwati and Wan Yusoff, Wan Mazwati (2013) Feelings and experiences of counseling practicum students and implications for counseling supervision. Journal of Educational and Social Research, 3 (7). pp. 731-736. ISSN 2039-9340 http://www.mcser.org/journal/index.php/jesr/issue/view/19
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Mansor, Norwati
Wan Yusoff, Wan Mazwati
Feelings and experiences of counseling practicum students and implications for counseling supervision
description This study focuses on Counseling Practicum students’ feelings and experiences during the Bachelor in Education program at International Islamic University. The students, who were in Guidance and Counseling specialization, had to go through two phases of training; practicum for seven weeks and internship for fourteen weeks. These training periods provide them an opportunity to apply related theories and techniques that they had learnt during three to four years of their studies. The participants for this study consisted of ten third year students from Guidance and Counseling course. This qualitative research adopted students’ journals, group counseling supervision, documentations, case presentation and interviews as the data resources to reveal rich description of the students’ feelings and experiences. The findings indicate five main themes derived for discussion which include nervousness, ability and counseling skills, negotiating students’ or clients’ perceptions, lack of confidence in application of theories, and task completion. Further, this study provides an insight for supervisors to highlight issues and challenges in assisting future trainee counselors
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author Mansor, Norwati
Wan Yusoff, Wan Mazwati
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Wan Yusoff, Wan Mazwati
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title Feelings and experiences of counseling practicum students and implications for counseling supervision
title_short Feelings and experiences of counseling practicum students and implications for counseling supervision
title_full Feelings and experiences of counseling practicum students and implications for counseling supervision
title_fullStr Feelings and experiences of counseling practicum students and implications for counseling supervision
title_full_unstemmed Feelings and experiences of counseling practicum students and implications for counseling supervision
title_sort feelings and experiences of counseling practicum students and implications for counseling supervision
publisher MCSER Publishing
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url http://irep.iium.edu.my/40291/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/40291/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/40291/1/mscerjurnal.pdf
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