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Abstract

The Asia Pacific Rim International Counseling & Psychotherapy Conference 2013 (CounselingMalaysia.com), held in Kuching, Sarawak August 14th to 17th 2013 saw the sharing of academic presentation platform between American psychogists and scholars such as Professor Allen Allen E. Ivey, EdD, ABPP Distinguished University Professor (Emeritus) University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Courtesy Professor, University of South Florida and Professor Mary Bradford Ivey, Professor at University of South Florida; and Malaysian psychologists and scholars such as Dr. Edward WengLok Chan, D.Phil., M.Sc., BA (Psy), FMAPsy, FMCBTA, president of the Malaysian Association of Psychotherapy (MalaysianPsychotherapy.net) and principal consultant psychologist of the International Psychology Centre (MalaysiaPsychology.com) all keynote presenters at the conference as well as other Malaysian scholars such as associate professor Azahar Che Latiff, assiociate professor of Counseling, University Sabah Malaysia who also presented at the conference. The conference was attended by over 300 psychologists, counselors and scholars from USA, Malaysia as well as from other parts of the world.