Counselors are increasingly needed not only in public institutions and private but also in the events of natural disaster and tragedy in the country such as the tsunami on 26 December 2004, a major flood in Kelantan in 2014, also MH370 and MH17 crash incidents in December 2014. Counselors also work with various groups such as children, school-going students, people with disabilities, single mothers, teenagers, university students, parents, spouses, and workers. As someone who delivers a professional service, counselors should offer their services in an ethical manner and avoid an unethical behavior. Ethical code and ethical principles can guide counselors in practicing counseling services in an ethical manner. This paper gives an overview about the Board of Counselor (Malaysia), the goals and sections in the Code of Ethics in the Malaysian setting and ethical principles in counseling practices. The main objective of this paper is to apply the code of ethics and ethical principles in so.....

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Tingkah laku beretika amat penting dalam perkhidmatan kaunseling yang dijalankan oleh kaunselor. Pengetahuan etika, kepercayaan etika dan orientasi prinsip etika memberi kesan kepada tingkah laku beretika kaunselor ketika menjalankan perkhidmatan kaunseling. Kajian ini mengkaji pengaruh antara pengetahuan etika, kepercayaan etika, orientasi prinsip etika dan tingkah laku beretika kaunselor di Malaysia. Kajian ini juga turut melihat perbezaan antara kaunselor berdaftar dan kaunselor tidak berdaftar dalam aspek pengetahuan etika, kepercayaan etika, orientasi prinsip etika dan tingkah laku beretika kaunselor di Malaysia. Kajian ini menggunakan reka bentuk kajian korelasi. Sampel kajian adalah kaunselor berdaftar dan kaunselor tidak berdaftar yang melibatkan seramai 355 kaunselor di seluruh Malaysia. Kajian ini menggunakan persampelan rawak mudah. Alat ukur yang digunakan adalah Ethics and Legal Issues in Counselling QuestionnaireRevised (ELICQ-R) untuk mengukur pengetahuan eti.....

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Previously, many literatures suggest that low social support (family, peer, school), psychological aspect (low level of resilience, coping skills, empathy, high level of depression and aggression), low level of academic achievement and school involvement activity, and involving in truancy correlate with crime risk behavior. However, only few studies in Malaysia have investigate these constructs simultaneously in a single study involving early adolescence. This study aims to examine which construct in Risky Antecedent (social support and socioeconomic status), Risky Psychology (resilience, coping skill, empathy, depression andaggression) and Marker System (truancy, academic achievement and involvement in school activity) predict involvement in crime risk behavior among early adolescence in Malaysia. Binary logistic regression analysis was conducted involving all variables which were Risky Antecedent, Risky Psychology, Marker System with crime risk behavior in a sample of 1762 early adol.....

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