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A Review of Self-Compassion & Psychological Well-Being among Counselors in Malaysia

Counseling has been recognized as both challenging and rewarding. Malaysia, as a developing country has placed more emphasis on the mental health of the population. Thus, one could foresee the growing demand for counselors in Malaysia and their professionalism in the future seeing that counselors ap...

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Main Authors: Voon, Siok Ping, Lau, Poh Li, Leong, Kwan Eu
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Language:English
Published: Global Academic Excellence 2017
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BF Psychology
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spelling my.unimas.ir.341752021-06-01T12:12:53Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/34175/ A Review of Self-Compassion & Psychological Well-Being among Counselors in Malaysia Voon, Siok Ping Lau, Poh Li Leong, Kwan Eu BF Psychology Counseling has been recognized as both challenging and rewarding. Malaysia, as a developing country has placed more emphasis on the mental health of the population. Thus, one could foresee the growing demand for counselors in Malaysia and their professionalism in the future seeing that counselors appear to be one of the professionals needed in helping people with many different mental health conditions. Counselor psychological well-being is important to the therapeutic relationship, process and treatment effectiveness. Thus, having a sense of psychological well-being is crucial for professional competency. Self-compassion has emerged as a healthy and positive attitude in enhancing counselors’ psychological well-being. However, these essential concepts have not been given much attention in Malaysia. Therefore, this paper reviews the concepts of psychological well-being and self-compassion, especially their relevance to counselors. Also, this paper highlights the significance of future research on selfcompassion and psychological well-being among counselors in Malaysia. Global Academic Excellence 2017 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/34175/1/Voon%20Siok.pdf Voon, Siok Ping and Lau, Poh Li and Leong, Kwan Eu (2017) A Review of Self-Compassion & Psychological Well-Being among Counselors in Malaysia. International Journal of Education, Psychology and Counseling, 2 (6). pp. 46-56. ISSN 0128-164X http://www.ijepc.com/
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topic BF Psychology
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Voon, Siok Ping
Lau, Poh Li
Leong, Kwan Eu
A Review of Self-Compassion & Psychological Well-Being among Counselors in Malaysia
description Counseling has been recognized as both challenging and rewarding. Malaysia, as a developing country has placed more emphasis on the mental health of the population. Thus, one could foresee the growing demand for counselors in Malaysia and their professionalism in the future seeing that counselors appear to be one of the professionals needed in helping people with many different mental health conditions. Counselor psychological well-being is important to the therapeutic relationship, process and treatment effectiveness. Thus, having a sense of psychological well-being is crucial for professional competency. Self-compassion has emerged as a healthy and positive attitude in enhancing counselors’ psychological well-being. However, these essential concepts have not been given much attention in Malaysia. Therefore, this paper reviews the concepts of psychological well-being and self-compassion, especially their relevance to counselors. Also, this paper highlights the significance of future research on selfcompassion and psychological well-being among counselors in Malaysia.
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author Voon, Siok Ping
Lau, Poh Li
Leong, Kwan Eu
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Lau, Poh Li
Leong, Kwan Eu
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title A Review of Self-Compassion & Psychological Well-Being among Counselors in Malaysia
title_short A Review of Self-Compassion & Psychological Well-Being among Counselors in Malaysia
title_full A Review of Self-Compassion & Psychological Well-Being among Counselors in Malaysia
title_fullStr A Review of Self-Compassion & Psychological Well-Being among Counselors in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed A Review of Self-Compassion & Psychological Well-Being among Counselors in Malaysia
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publisher Global Academic Excellence
publishDate 2017
url http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/34175/1/Voon%20Siok.pdf
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/34175/
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