Secondary School Students’ Counselling Needs: What Components Are Important?

Catering the difficulties and challenges of secondary school students is delicate. Receiving adequate information and support both mentally and emotionally at this stage is crucial for their development shortly before and after they graduate school, thus needing serious attention from school couns...

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Main Authors: Mohd Azli Jailani,, Nuzha Mohd Taha,, Sofia Elias,
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Published: ASEAN Journal of Open and Distance Learning 2022
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spelling my.oum.15462023-08-17T01:01:01Z Secondary School Students’ Counselling Needs: What Components Are Important? Mohd Azli Jailani, Nuzha Mohd Taha, Sofia Elias, BF Psychology LB1603 Secondary Education. High schools Catering the difficulties and challenges of secondary school students is delicate. Receiving adequate information and support both mentally and emotionally at this stage is crucial for their development shortly before and after they graduate school, thus needing serious attention from school counsellors. Conducting comprehensive and effective counselling programmes addressing the said issues requires identification of the specific needs of their students. This study was conducted to identify the components of counselling needs perceived as important by secondary school students themselves. This study applied the qualitative research design with phenomenological techniques due to its relevance in describing and understanding the components of counselling needs outlined by the research objective. The participants involved 16 secondary school students who were purposively selected from two secondary schools in Selangor, Malaysia. The data were collected through semi-structured focus group interview sessions and analysed using the Thematic Analysis method. From the analysis, it was found that the components of counselling needs perceived as important by the research participants are grouped into six different categories; leading with personal development needs, then emotional needs, career development needs, academic needs, peer relationship needs, and family needs respectively. Other than helping school counsellors strategise their work in assisting students to endure their life challenges, the identified counselling needs components can also assist researchers in developing instruments related to counselling needs assessment. (Abstract by authors) ASEAN Journal of Open and Distance Learning 2022 Article PeerReviewed https://ajodl.oum.edu.my/vol14b.php Mohd Azli Jailani, and Nuzha Mohd Taha, and Sofia Elias, (2022) Secondary School Students’ Counselling Needs: What Components Are Important? ASEAN Journal of Open & Distance Learning (AJODL), 14 (2). ISSN 2232-0814 http://library.oum.edu.my/repository/1546/
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LB1603 Secondary Education. High schools
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Secondary School Students’ Counselling Needs: What Components Are Important?
description Catering the difficulties and challenges of secondary school students is delicate. Receiving adequate information and support both mentally and emotionally at this stage is crucial for their development shortly before and after they graduate school, thus needing serious attention from school counsellors. Conducting comprehensive and effective counselling programmes addressing the said issues requires identification of the specific needs of their students. This study was conducted to identify the components of counselling needs perceived as important by secondary school students themselves. This study applied the qualitative research design with phenomenological techniques due to its relevance in describing and understanding the components of counselling needs outlined by the research objective. The participants involved 16 secondary school students who were purposively selected from two secondary schools in Selangor, Malaysia. The data were collected through semi-structured focus group interview sessions and analysed using the Thematic Analysis method. From the analysis, it was found that the components of counselling needs perceived as important by the research participants are grouped into six different categories; leading with personal development needs, then emotional needs, career development needs, academic needs, peer relationship needs, and family needs respectively. Other than helping school counsellors strategise their work in assisting students to endure their life challenges, the identified counselling needs components can also assist researchers in developing instruments related to counselling needs assessment. (Abstract by authors)
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title Secondary School Students’ Counselling Needs: What Components Are Important?
title_short Secondary School Students’ Counselling Needs: What Components Are Important?
title_full Secondary School Students’ Counselling Needs: What Components Are Important?
title_fullStr Secondary School Students’ Counselling Needs: What Components Are Important?
title_full_unstemmed Secondary School Students’ Counselling Needs: What Components Are Important?
title_sort secondary school students’ counselling needs: what components are important?
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