This paper aims to conceptually explain about the aspect of online counseling as an alternative to the new millennium service. The online counseling service offered is influenced by technological progress that people enjoy today and many aspects of the present socio-economic impacts. It will also affect the style of the environment, innovation and reform in the field of counseling. Along with these developments, age of counseling services has changed towards the cultivation of creative and innovative thinking which is able to make online counseling as a new alternative in counseling services that enables helping relationships to happen quickly and effectively via online mediums such as telephone, email, and chat room. This service is not meant to replace face-to-face psychotherapy, but is useful as an alternative resource for assistance in dealing with the problems of living with the advantages of belonging. However, there are still limitations in the implementation of online counseling including aspects of issues and ethics that need to be examined by practitioners who wish to offer this service. Thus, this paper will discuss all these vital elements of online counseling, in order to implement it in Malaysian context.
Human development is accompanied by a balance growth of physical, emotional, spiritual, and intellectual elements of an individual. Basically, these four elements anchored the Malaysian Educational philosophies of producing well-balanced school pupils from very early stage. Hence, pupils of national preschool need to be monitored of these elements on their developmental stages. The objective of this study is to look at the socio-emotional developmental stages of preschool children. The study has been conducted in two preschool classes of Sekolah Kebangsaan King George V, Seremban, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. The data collection has been done via a survey questionnaire that has been administered tofifty preschoolers observed in both classes. Data collected was descriptively and inferentially analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software version 20.0. The main findingrevealthat the repondents' psycho-socio-emotional development is equivalent among genders, as well as between the age of five and six years old. This initial information would help teachers to affectively prepare the guidance programme for these preschoolers when they enter elementary classes.
Online counseling is a delivery of therapeutic interventions in cyberspace where there are communication between trained professional counselors and clients using electronic communication technologies such as telephone, computer, email, internet as mediators in separate places. The provision of counseling services via telephone (also known as tele-counseling) is relatively new and the guiding policies are still being drafted by the local governing body of counseling profession. Hence, the main objective of this qualitative study is to explore expert perceptions of the feasibility of counseling provision via telephone, also known as tele-counseling. A total of five local experts in the field of counseling were involved as the respondents of this study. Based on the thematic analysis of the data, there were three main themes generated from the objectives of this study: (i) acceptance of tele-counseling services, (ii) advantages of telecounseling services and (iii) limitations of tele-counseling services. The findings suggest that telecounseling should be considered as an alternative to the conventional face-to-face counseling services in Malaysia. However, despite all the advantages it may offer, counselors who intend to engage in providing this service must also consider the potential limitations of its implementation.
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