The graying of the baby boom generation, lower birth rates and increases in life expectancy due to proper nutrition and healthy living have led to a rise in number of aging population. The concern over aging is not just about the size of the old age population but, more importantly the health, the welfare and care, the living arrangements, the infrastructure, housing, income and economic growth. This has called for the establishment of the elderly institutions or centres, which are mushrooming, to provide care and services to fulfil their varied needs. This paper attempts to discuss the types of services offered and the challenges faced in providing such services especially taking into account of the multi-cultural background of the people in the country. The study also examines to what extent the care centres have played their roles well enough to address the needs of the elderly people. This study uses in-depth interviews to the principals and supervisors of the centres, observation and documentation interpretation and the qualitative data were analyzed using content analysis. The findings show that the types of services offered are more or less similar in every centre including health services, social and recreational activities, education and training programs and religious guides. Not all programs can be carried out effectively. Challenges faced include financial, infrastructure, professionalism, collaboration and supports, living arrangements, different socio-cultural background and emotional and psychological needs of the elderly people. Further research is expected to design a model of the best provider of services to the elderly people at the care centres.

This qualitative case study is designed to explore the application of basic counseling skills for beginning counselor (BC). Eleven counseling students participated in this study which comprised of eight second year students as mentees and three third year students as mentors. The objective of this study is to explore the application of basic counseling skills in conducting individual counseling sessions with the client from first year counseling students. Content analysis was used to identify themes from two documents based on transcriptions of counseling sessions and self reflection journals. The theme emerges from the analysis of data shown the strength and weaknesses of BC applying basic counseling skills. This study has implications for professional development of counseling students including; (1) The role of peer mentor which provides emotional and professional support to BC (2) peer mentoring and coaching project enhance self-efficacy, and (3) continuous development of self-efficacy and competency for BC. Future study suggests an intervention for both mentors and mentee in order to enhance professional competency of counseling Future studies are recommended to include group counseling which involve first year counseling student as member of the group counseling. Finally, this study proposes to develop module of coaching and mentoring for beginning counselor.

statements are used. Content analysis based ontranscription of interviews to determine the themes, categories and subteam. NVivo 8 sofhvare used in managing qualitative data for each of the themes found. The result shows all six teenagers involved in sex before mam'age with their boyfiiends. The perception of self esteem was low. Teennagers failed to give an accurate definition for the concept of self-esteem. The findings of this study showed that teenagers are aware of love to themsevlve and family members after becoming trainees in rehabilitation centre. Moral values such as prayec respecting parents are considered a significant value to build self esteem as well as continue to learn self control and discipline. Implications and recommendations this study covers the role of the family institution, the role ofthe Ministry of education, theories and suggestions for the mle of Counsellors, and Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development to integrate the approach of handling the isues of adolesceces involve with free sex. Recommendations for firture research are discussed in order to focus on exploring the recovery andpmentive intervention psychoeducation in various dimensions to address the problem of youth involved in the sex before marraige.

Adolescents involved in sex before marriage and having children out of wedlock with abandoned babies are increasing every year. Adolescent girls living in moral rehabilitation center has also an issue because the number is increasing. This study aims to identify the appropriate inventory to measure the process of repentance youth who were involved in adultery through analysis of Structural Equation Model. To ensure that the constructs are well-constructed, study design uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative. The first phase uses a qualitative approach involving focus groups to construct the instrument. Qualitative findings identify eight level in the process of repentance, al-Ghazali had identified namely, the guidance of faith, Islamic guidance, moral guidance, muhasabah, muatabah, muaqabah, mujahadah and istiqamah. Next, was to develop a self-assessment inventory using five-point Likert scale that list 49 items. The study involved 284 respondents who were involved in sex before marriage. However, Structural equation modeling analysis had produced Fit models that show only 13 items of which five items for combinations construct of understanding, five items for combinations of action and only three items to construct of repentance. The results showed construct as combination of understanding is significant and positive relationship with the constructs combination of action (r = 0.78) with repentance constructs as moderators of a weak positive relationship but on constructs combination Understanding (r = 0.22). Implication of this study suggests that understanding the components driving someone to act in the process of repentance. However, understanding the constructs showed a positive influence on the construct of self. Instead, taubat can not influence action in the context of the entire repentance process. Future study is proposed to groups of boys to identify similarities or differences in model Repentance Al-Ghazali (M-Tag).

Kebiasaannya, nilai‐nilai moral dan budaya diterapkan dari satu genarasi ke generasi yang lain melalui didikan ibu bapa, orang dewasa atau guru di sekolah. Kehidupan pada masa kini, dipengaruhi oleh teknologi moden dan masyarakat terbudaya dengan media di mana kebanyakan ideologi budaya dan penerapan nilai diturunkan dari satu generasi ke generasi yang lain melalui media seperti televisyen, muzik dan Internet. Kanak‐kanak di Malaysia juga terpengaruh dengan media terutama media yang berunsurkan hiburan. Kajian ini bertujuan untuk melihat penggunaan media elektronik dalam penerapan nilai‐ nilai Islam kepada kanak‐kanak dengan mengenalpasti nilai‐nilai yang boleh difahami daripada cerita Upin dan Ipin dan mengenalpasti pengaruh media terhadap sikap dan tingkah laku kanak‐kanak. Dapatan kajian ini menunjukkan bahawa media mempunyai potensi untuk menerapkan nilai melalui konsep didik hibur. Batasan, saranan dan cadangan kajian juga dibincangkan. Kata kunci: Upin dan Ipin, nilai‐nilai Islam, media .............................................................................................

Latihan penyediaan kaunselor seperti Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM) perlu memberi perhatian yang serius dalam memastikan latihan penyediaan kaunselornya bermutu tinggi, berkepimpinan dan dapat memenuhi syarat-syarat keprofesionalisme dalam bidang kaunseling. Perancangan yang rapi dari sudut kurikulum pengajaran, pemilihan calon, taraf kelayakan pensyarah, syarat minimun kelayakan, kemudahan latihan, tempoh masa latihan dan juga ijazah yang ditawarkan perlu disediakan oleh institusi terlibat. Latihan penyediaan kaunselor juga bertujuan untuk menyediakan kaunselor yang tinggi kualiti kepimpinannya disamping memenuhi syarat keprofesionalisme. Kertas kerja ini melihat latihan penyediaan kaunselor Program Kaunseling, Fakulti Kepimpinan dun Pengurusan USIM yang membentuk ciri kepimpinan pelajarnya. Selain itu, kertas kerja ini melihat latihan penyediaan kaunselor yang rapi dari sudut kurikulum pengajaran, pemilihan calon, taraf kelayakan pensyarah, syarat minimun kelayakan, kemudahan latihan, tempoh masa latihan dan juga ijazah yang ditawarkan.

This study aims to make the Coping strategies inventory adapt to the Malay language. The aim is to test the trusted ability of the inventory and to translate it so that it is relevant to the various cultures which experience stress in Malaysia. The method employed is based upon a case study of 100 students in a school for the initial study and towards 140 female students in two juvenile detention centers. These studies have shown a consistency with the findings of past studies in Spain. Psychometric features demonstrate an interesting find because eight of the factors from 40 items which is studied in Spain had also showed the alfa Cronbach coeficient value that is high for eight factors i.e. between .61 to .76. The alfa Cronbach value for ISDT that is high i.e. 0.93 indicate the relevancy of the inventory used.