The Improvement Of The Guidance And Counselling Teachers Or Counsellors' Understanding On The Five Focuses Of Individual Counselling Service And Their Application

摘要

Understanding and applying the five focuses of individual counselling service are the essential parts in increasing the quality of the students' daily life regarded as the goal of guidance and counselling service at school. Unfortunately, there are still a number of Guidance and Counselling teachers ignoring the five focuses of the service in carrying out individual counselling. They seem to neglect the fact that individual counselling is the key point (the heart) of Guidance and Counselling service. To deal with the problem, it is viewed necessary to increase the teachers or the counsellors' understanding on the five focuses of the service and train them to apply the points. There were 30 Guidance and Counselling teachers taking part in the program in Kota Solok. It consists of presentation, discussion, and practice sessions. In order to reveal the outcomes of the activity, evaluation on the process and the results was conducted. In general, it is revealed that the Guidance and Counselling teachers have good understanding on the five focuses of individual counselling service. Related to the implementation of the service, the teachers said that it could be categorized as adequate. Based on the results of the research, it is recommended to the Guidance and Counselling teachers to continuously conduct the five focuses of individual counselling service at school, and to take parts in any trainings related to the implementation of the individual counselling held by official organizations or universities.