Relationship between spirituality and multicultural competency factors among undergraduate counselling students in Malaysia

Working with religion and spirituality is often problematic in counselling practice due to counsellors’ competency issues and their own cultural and spiritual history which do not make them expert in the field. Especially, there are not enough educational courses regarding preparing counselling stu...

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Main Author:	Amouha, Amirreza
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2013
Subjects:	Spirituality - Study and teaching (Higher) - Malaysia Cross-cultural counseling - Malaysia Counseling - Study and teaching (Higher) - Malaysia
Online Access:	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/39972/1/FPP%202013%2013R.pdf
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spelling	my-upm-ir.399722016-01-29T02:41:07Z Relationship between spirituality and multicultural competency factors among undergraduate counselling students in Malaysia 2013-07 Amouha, Amirreza Working with religion and spirituality is often problematic in counselling practice due to counsellors’ competency issues and their own cultural and spiritual history which do not make them expert in the field. Especially, there are not enough educational courses regarding preparing counselling students for applying spirituality in counselling practice. This study examines a relationship between spirituality factors (spiritual awareness, spiritual disappointment, spiritual narcissism, spiritual realistic acceptance, and spiritual instability) and multicultural counselling competency factors (multicultural counselling awareness, multicultural counselling knowledge and multicultural counselling skills) among undergraduate counselling students in Malaysia. And as an empirical research this study randomly surveyed 119 final-year counselling students (27 males and 92 females) at three Malaysian universities (UM, UPM and USIM), to find their self-ratings on spirituality factors by Spiritual Assessment Inventory (SAI) questionnaire with 48 items and multicultural competency factors by Multicultural Counselling Competencies (MCCs) questionnaire with 40 items. Eight significant low and moderate positive correlations were found, but four of them indicated medium and large effect size. The results imply the need of an academic training and a course to prepare competent counsellors in regard to the demanding role of spirituality in counselling practice within the diverse culture of Malaysia. Spirituality - Study and teaching (Higher) - Malaysia Cross-cultural counseling - Malaysia Counseling - Study and teaching (Higher) - Malaysia 2013-07 Thesis http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/39972/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/39972/1/FPP%202013%2013R.pdf application/pdf en public masters Universiti Putra Malaysia Spirituality - Study and teaching (Higher) - Malaysia Cross-cultural counseling - Malaysia Counseling - Study and teaching (Higher) - Malaysia
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topic	Spirituality - Study and teaching (Higher) - Malaysia Cross-cultural counseling - Malaysia Counseling - Study and teaching (Higher) - Malaysia
spellingShingle	Spirituality - Study and teaching (Higher) - Malaysia Cross-cultural counseling - Malaysia Counseling - Study and teaching (Higher) - Malaysia Amouha, Amirreza Relationship between spirituality and multicultural competency factors among undergraduate counselling students in Malaysia
description	Working with religion and spirituality is often problematic in counselling practice due to counsellors’ competency issues and their own cultural and spiritual history which do not make them expert in the field. Especially, there are not enough educational courses regarding preparing counselling students for applying spirituality in counselling practice. This study examines a relationship between spirituality factors (spiritual awareness, spiritual disappointment, spiritual narcissism, spiritual realistic acceptance, and spiritual instability) and multicultural counselling competency factors (multicultural counselling awareness, multicultural counselling knowledge and multicultural counselling skills) among undergraduate counselling students in Malaysia. And as an empirical research this study randomly surveyed 119 final-year counselling students (27 males and 92 females) at three Malaysian universities (UM, UPM and USIM), to find their self-ratings on spirituality factors by Spiritual Assessment Inventory (SAI) questionnaire with 48 items and multicultural competency factors by Multicultural Counselling Competencies (MCCs) questionnaire with 40 items. Eight significant low and moderate positive correlations were found, but four of them indicated medium and large effect size. The results imply the need of an academic training and a course to prepare competent counsellors in regard to the demanding role of spirituality in counselling practice within the diverse culture of Malaysia.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Amouha, Amirreza
author_facet	Amouha, Amirreza
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title	Relationship between spirituality and multicultural competency factors among undergraduate counselling students in Malaysia
title_short	Relationship between spirituality and multicultural competency factors among undergraduate counselling students in Malaysia
title_full	Relationship between spirituality and multicultural competency factors among undergraduate counselling students in Malaysia
title_fullStr	Relationship between spirituality and multicultural competency factors among undergraduate counselling students in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	Relationship between spirituality and multicultural competency factors among undergraduate counselling students in Malaysia
title_sort	relationship between spirituality and multicultural competency factors among undergraduate counselling students in malaysia
granting_institution	Universiti Putra Malaysia
publishDate	2013
url	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/39972/1/FPP%202013%2013R.pdf
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Relationship between spirituality and multicultural competency factors among undergraduate counselling students in Malaysia

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