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The effect of schema therapy and schema-focused mindfulness therapy on marital communication of Iranian women in Malaysia Nooroney, Nooshin; Wan Jaafar, Wan Marzuki; Hassan, Siti Aishah; Noah, Sidek Mohd
Konselor Vol 8, No 3 (2019): KONSELOR
Publisher : Universitas Negeri Padang

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The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of schema therapy and schema-focused mindfulness therapy on marital communication among Iranian married women who lived in Malaysia from ‎2015 to 2016. The qualified participants were assigned randomly into three groups, i.e. two experimental groups which in order received schema therapy and schema-focused mindfulness therapy, and a control group which did not receive any treatment. The treatment sessions lasted nearly three months using marital satisfaction subscale from the ENRICH questionnaire, a demographic questionnaire and Young's schema questionnaire as the instruments. Two-way repeated measures ANOVA and ANCOVA were also employed for data analysis. The findings of the study revealed that schema therapy and schema-focused mindfulness therapy had a significant effect on marital communication of Iranian women in Malaysia. Moreover, the findings showed more improvement for schema-focused mindfulness therapy group at two months follow-up.
The construction and validation of solution-focused group work (SFGW) for Malaysian adolescents Shunmugam, Ratnadevi R; Noah, Sidek Mohd
COUNS-EDU: The International Journal of Counseling and Education Vol. 2 No. 2 (2017)
Publisher : Indonesian Institute for Counseling, Education, and Therapy & Indonesian Counselor Association

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Solution-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.