The psychological well-being and self-compassion of Malaysian counseling and guidance teachers

Abstract

The national development and government initiatives’ in realizing educational transformation has made the profession of school counseling and guidance teachers facing a challenging and vulnerable role with stress that affects their well-being. The psychological well-being of school counseling and guidance teachers need to be explored and understood to ensure their services in schools are implemented effectively. The study aims to understand contribution of self-compassion to psychological well-being among school counseling and guidance teachers. The results of previous studies have found that; (i) self-compassion contribute to the psychological well-being of school counseling and guidance teachers; and (ii) good psychological well-being of school counseling and guidance teachers can improve the quality of counseling services. The implication of this study explains the need to improve psychological well-being among Malaysian school counseling and guidance teachers. Proposed follow-up recommendations need to be done by focusing on quantitative studies aimed at better understanding of this issue.

Keywords

• Counseling and guidance
• psychological well-being
• self-compassion

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