QUESTIONS & PAST

YEAR PAPER

MAY 2015

SECTION A
(60 marks)
Answer all questions

1 School guidance and counseling service is a

process of professional help to enhance the
educationprogrammes (Othman Mohamad,
2010)
a)Explain the objectives of guidance and
counseling service in schools.
(5
marks)
b)Confidentiallity is a very important practice
for a counseling teacher when handling a
counseling session in order to gain clients
trust. However, there are a few situations
whereby the counseling teacher is not bound
by confidentiality.
Elaborate and provide relevant examples of
confidentiality can be an exception in a
counseling session.
(10 marks)

2. Albert Ellis in Rational Emotive Behavior

Theraphy (REBT) argues that humans have
always been troubled by an irrational belief
system.
a)Describe Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy
(REBT) with relevant examples.
(5
marks)
a)Mr Osman finds his student, Ali, often disturbs
others during classes. Ali also messes things
in the class to get the attentions of teachers
and other students.
As the schools guidance and counseling
teacher, discuss how you can help Ali change
his behaviour by using Humanistic Theory.
(10 marks)

3
a)State five factors that cause children to
demonstrate resistance during counseling
sessions. (5 marks)
b)During a counseling sessions, Rafidah
refused to say anything. She kept quiet in
the session. Not much information was
elicited. Thus it was difficult for the
counser, Mr Shan, to solve Rafidahs
problem. Her body showed traces of
bruises, scars and old wounds. Mr Shan
suspected that she was abused by her
family members.
Suggest themost appropriate therapy that
Mr Shan can apply to help Rafidah. Justify
your
choice

4. Holland relates individual interest with six career

and work environments namely, realistics, artistics,
social, enterprsing and conventional.
a) Explain the term realistic and investigative with
suitable examples
(5 marks)
b) According to Rogers (1987), group counseling
refers to the orientation of the problem and the
process of restoring a person in accordance with
the majoritys needs or a general decision. This
type of counseling fits well with individuals, who
are experincing difficulties, dissatisfaction or has
behavioural problems.
Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of group
counseling. Provide suitable examples in your
arguments.
(10 marks)

SECTION B
(40 marks)
Answer two questions

1. You received complaints from

Mathematics and English teachers who
are teaching 5 Jasmin class. They
complained that a student in the class,
Chan, shows declining academic
performance for the past four months.
As his class teacher, you need to gather
information about Chan and identify his
problem before refering him to the
schools guidanc and counseling
teachers.
Describe in detail the methods used to
collect Chan information to assist the
guidance and counseling teacher.

2. The Behavioural Counseling Theory is the

most effective theory to address students
behaviour problem. (Melanie, 2006)
Give your arguments to support the
statement above.
2. Art therapy is perceived to be very helpful
in the process counseling in primary
schools. The therapy suits the students
maturity levels and their communication
skills.
Discuss to what extent the implementation
of the art therapy can help the counseling
process in primary schools.

MAY 2014

SECTION B
(SECTION A OBJECTIVES)

Answer all questions (40%)

1
a)State five importance of Guidance
and Counseling services in schools.
(4 marks)
b)According to COSCA (2004),
counseling and psychotherapy are
methods to give response to various
human needs
Explain three differences between
counseling and psychotherapy.
(10 marks)

2. In guidance and counseling services,

collecting pupils information is an
important step and it must be managed
before the counseling sessions.
a)State reasons why a guidance and
counseling teacher needs to collect
pupils information before the
counseling sessions. (5 marks)
b)Expalin the various techniques useb by
a guidance and counseling teacher to
collect information

3. Ms Rosilah, a guidance teacher plans to use

play therapy in her counseling session.
a)What are the play media criterias that needs
to consider.
b)A guidance and counseling teacher is
listening to a pupils sad story about her father
who passed away in a road accident. The
guidance and counseling teacher intends to
apply storytelling therapy during her
counseling session with the pupil
What are the important elements that the
guidance teacher should consider when
conducting a story telling therapy

4.
a)In your opinion, why does a guidance
and conseling teacher needs to use
Psychology Inventory in school?
b)Based on Ginxberg Theory, explain
the process of an individual career
selection

SECTION C
Answer two questions only

1 Mr Amri, a guidance teacher has

indentified a pupil, Ali, in Year 5, who
does not complete his homework
often. It happened because Ali did
not know how to manage his time
effectively.
Using Behaviourism Theory, discuss
the strategies the Mr Amri can apply
to change his behaviour.

2. To ensure an individual counseling

to be conducted effectively, a
guidance teacher needs to identify
and focus o the client problems. This
important duty can be carried out in
exploration stage.
Using appropriate examples, discuss
the various elements that a
counselors= should consider at the
exploration stage during individual
counseling process

3. Group counseling is an approach

used by a trained counselor to give
effective help to a group of
individuals who are having daily
problems at the same time.
(Zuraidah, 2010)
Based on the definition above, give
your opinion on the extent to which
group counseling helps in solving
pupils problem.