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• TITLE: Readiness and Challenges of Counsellor in Offering Gerontological Counselling in Malaysia

  AUTHORS: Haikal Anuar Adnan, Khadijah Alavi, Amran Hassan, Daniella Maryam Mokhtar

  KEYWORDS: Counselling, Gerontology, Challenge, Readiness

  JOURNAL NAME: Creative Education, Vol.11 No.12, December 11, 2020

  ABSTRACT: Malaysia is expected to become an old age nation by 2030. The psychological problem faced by elderly requires counselling intervention. The objective of this study is to explore the readiness of counsellors in dealing with adult and aging as curriculum and to explore the challenges in providing gerontological counselling. The study was used qualitative approach based on case study of 9 informants on purporsive sampling method and conducted within indepth interviews. The findings showed that level of readiness of counsellorisvery high and very interested to dealing with aging client. The main challenges of counselorareno public universities offer courses gerontological counsellingin Malaysia. The implication of this study involvement of gerontologicalcounsellor through Malaysian Association of counsellor will attract young counsellor interest in the care of older person.