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Counselors experiences in handling the counseling session on the gay and lesbian clients: factors causing the occurence of gay and lesbian behavior

Gay and lesbian phenomenon has become talk of the town in Malaysia nowadays. It is considered as a controversial issue as it has started to expand since ancient times. There are various notions and perceptions of society towards gay and lesbian culture. Therefore, the primary objective of this st...

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Main Authors: Mohd Faradi, Mohamed Ghazali, Siti Hajar, Jamal, Nasrudin, Subhi, Salleh, Amat
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Published: 2019
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L Education (General)
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spelling my-unisza-ir.63012022-03-16T06:28:20Z http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/6301/ Counselors experiences in handling the counseling session on the gay and lesbian clients: factors causing the occurence of gay and lesbian behavior Mohd Faradi, Mohamed Ghazali Siti Hajar, Jamal Nasrudin, Subhi Salleh, Amat L Education (General) Gay and lesbian phenomenon has become talk of the town in Malaysia nowadays. It is considered as a controversial issue as it has started to expand since ancient times. There are various notions and perceptions of society towards gay and lesbian culture. Therefore, the primary objective of this study is to identify the driving factors of the clients’ involvement in gay and lesbian world based on counselors’ experiences in handling their counseling sessions. The study has used qualitative study design involving semi structured in-depth interviews on counselors’ experiences while handling the gay and lesbian cases. Purposive sampling is employed in interviewing the counselors who have been identified by the researcher to have information in counseling session management with regard to the causing factors of the client’s involvement in gay and lesbian activities. Data were analyzed by studying the transcription of interview recording and identifying the themes that emerged based on the objectives of the study with the help of the N'vivo 11 program. Based on the analyzed data, there are four themes that emerged from the interview results; (i) family factor, (ii) education and (iii) sexual abuse and (iv) environment. The results demonstrate that counselors should possess knowledge and information regarding the clients so that they can help and assist these individuals in obtaining better lives. These gay and lesbian individuals should be provided with moral and spiritual support since some of them are the victims of circumstances. Therefore, the implication of the study is so that it can enhance a counselor’s knowledge if he or she wants to provide better counseling services to their clients (the gay and lesbian individuals). Apart from that, the findings are accentuated to be able to assist educators in counseling field so that the trained counselors will be more competent in dealing with gay and lesbian issue. 2019-10 Article PeerReviewed text en http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/6301/1/FH02-FBK-19-27398.pdf Mohd Faradi, Mohamed Ghazali and Siti Hajar, Jamal and Nasrudin, Subhi and Salleh, Amat (2019) Counselors experiences in handling the counseling session on the gay and lesbian clients: factors causing the occurence of gay and lesbian behavior. Journal of Qualitative Social Sciences 2019, 1 (1). pp. 1-11. ISSN 2637-0808
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topic L Education (General)
spellingShingle L Education (General)
Mohd Faradi, Mohamed Ghazali
Siti Hajar, Jamal
Nasrudin, Subhi
Salleh, Amat
Counselors experiences in handling the counseling session on the gay and lesbian clients: factors causing the occurence of gay and lesbian behavior
description Gay and lesbian phenomenon has become talk of the town in Malaysia nowadays. It is considered as a controversial issue as it has started to expand since ancient times. There are various notions and perceptions of society towards gay and lesbian culture. Therefore, the primary objective of this study is to identify the driving factors of the clients’ involvement in gay and lesbian world based on counselors’ experiences in handling their counseling sessions. The study has used qualitative study design involving semi structured in-depth interviews on counselors’ experiences while handling the gay and lesbian cases. Purposive sampling is employed in interviewing the counselors who have been identified by the researcher to have information in counseling session management with regard to the causing factors of the client’s involvement in gay and lesbian activities. Data were analyzed by studying the transcription of interview recording and identifying the themes that emerged based on the objectives of the study with the help of the N'vivo 11 program. Based on the analyzed data, there are four themes that emerged from the interview results; (i) family factor, (ii) education and (iii) sexual abuse and (iv) environment. The results demonstrate that counselors should possess knowledge and information regarding the clients so that they can help and assist these individuals in obtaining better lives. These gay and lesbian individuals should be provided with moral and spiritual support since some of them are the victims of circumstances. Therefore, the implication of the study is so that it can enhance a counselor’s knowledge if he or she wants to provide better counseling services to their clients (the gay and lesbian individuals). Apart from that, the findings are accentuated to be able to assist educators in counseling field so that the trained counselors will be more competent in dealing with gay and lesbian issue.
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author Mohd Faradi, Mohamed Ghazali
Siti Hajar, Jamal
Nasrudin, Subhi
Salleh, Amat
author_facet Mohd Faradi, Mohamed Ghazali
Siti Hajar, Jamal
Nasrudin, Subhi
Salleh, Amat
author_sort Mohd Faradi, Mohamed Ghazali
title Counselors experiences in handling the counseling session on the gay and lesbian clients: factors causing the occurence of gay and lesbian behavior
title_short Counselors experiences in handling the counseling session on the gay and lesbian clients: factors causing the occurence of gay and lesbian behavior
title_full Counselors experiences in handling the counseling session on the gay and lesbian clients: factors causing the occurence of gay and lesbian behavior
title_fullStr Counselors experiences in handling the counseling session on the gay and lesbian clients: factors causing the occurence of gay and lesbian behavior
title_full_unstemmed Counselors experiences in handling the counseling session on the gay and lesbian clients: factors causing the occurence of gay and lesbian behavior
title_sort counselors experiences in handling the counseling session on the gay and lesbian clients: factors causing the occurence of gay and lesbian behavior
publishDate 2019
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