ISLAMIC COUNSELLING PRACTICES AMONG MUSLIM COUNSELLORS

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A proportion of persons The practices of spiritual elements in counselling is a requirement which is widely recognized by current counselling practitioners. This is because various problems faced by humans are not only arise from external aspect but also attribute toward spiritual aspects such as psychological and emotional issues. Hence, this study focuses on the practice of Islamic approaches applied by Muslim Counsellors. This is a quantitative research design to carry out surveys on Islamic counselling practices among the Muslim Counsellors. The study sample is a purposive sampling of 31 respondents randomly selected Muslim Counsellors comprising IPG Counsellors, PPD Counsellors, school Counsellors and University/college Counsellors. The data analysis is in the form of descriptive analysis that looks at percentage and mean using SPSS v.22 data analysis. The findings showed that the level of Islamic approach practice is implemented by Muslim Counsellors at a high level. Subsequently, the findings found that spiritual programs such as religious talks, prevention programmes like Anti-Smoking, HIV and Aids and leadership courses were successfully implemented in schools. Besides, this study found that there are several challenges that Muslim Counsellors have to encounter in applying Islamic counselling are lack of religious knowledge whether counsellors or clients required considerable time to integrate religious understandings in sessions and tendencies to instill values in clients when using religious elements in counselling. Hopefully that the findings of this study will generalize the implementation of the Islamic approach in Muslim Counsellors.