Education and Social Sciences Review
Vol 3, No 1 (2022): Education and Social Sciences Review

Exploration of self-care practices from coping strategies perspective among trainee counsellors

Merikan Aren (Universiti Malaysia Sarawak)
Waheeda Pisal (Universiti Malaysia Sarawak)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Mar 2022

Abstract

Self-care practices regarded as one of the most important components for the profession of counselling. Besides, self-care practices are also recognized as an essential necessity for trainee counsellors in becoming helping professionals in future. Nonetheless, there is insignificant in previous studies regarding self-care practices among trainee counsellors. The purpose of this study is to explore self-care practices from a coping style perspective among trainee counsellors. This study adopted a descriptive qualitative research design in exploring the self-care practices among trainee counsellors at one of the universities in Sarawak, Malaysia using Six Part Story Method. The application of Six Part Story Method helps in exploring the self-care practices by illustrating the drawing through the six boxes. The data was collected through group counselling sessions and data was analyzed using the BASIC Ph Model. Overall, six themes have emerged from the findings. The results from these findings shows that trainee counsellors are highly dominant in Social and Physical Dimensions. Besides that, this study also proposes on determining the suitability of Six Part Story Method in counselling approach. This study has contributed to the existing knowledge on the self-care practice in context of trainee counsellors. It enhances awareness to the society especially people in counselling field on the importance of practicing self- care when experiencing stressful circumstances.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

essr

Publisher

Subject

Education Social Sciences

Description

Education and Social Sciences Review ISSN 2720-8915 (Print), ISSN 2720-8923 (Electronic) is an international, peer-reviewed journal and scientific journal publish by Indonesian Institute for Counseling, Education and Theraphy. Educational Opinion and Social Sciences Review a multi-disciplinary, ...