Abstract
This qualitative study aims to describe the counselling experience among adolescent who are involved in illicit sex behaviour. Three adolescent girls, who are currently participate in rehabilitation programme at a center, were selected as research participants. Participants were selected based on (i) they are involved in illicit sex behaviour previously, and (ii) they are participating in counselling session. Data were gathered through semi-structured interviews and journal writing. The data involved three interviews and a series of journal writing, were gathered over a period of six weeks. The results show that emotional experience was the main issue presented by the participants of this study. The three themes related to emotional experience were identified as a sense of calm, able to control their emotion, and ready to face challenges. The implications of these findings are that counselling sessions provide opportunities for adolescents, who are involved in illicit behaviour to experience unconditional acceptance, to have positive feelings, be more open to new experience and to help them to recognize the potential within themselves. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n2s1p316
Highlights
Adolescence is a period of transition from childhood to adulthood and an important phase of developmental stage in an individual's life, which occurs between 11 and 21 years old
This study aims to understand how the adolescents who involved in illicit sex behaviours encounter their counselling experience
From the information obtained from the centre, there are a large number of inmates who involved in sex out of wedlock and some of them involved in illicit sex behaviours
Summary
Adolescence is a period of transition from childhood to adulthood and an important phase of developmental stage in an individual's life, which occurs between 11 and 21 years old. A study by Zainuddin and Norazmah (2011) showed different results, the main factor involved in adolescent social problems is a desire to try something new; rather than the influence of family background. Jusang, Mohd Rezal and Zamree (2007) conducted a study on the social problems of young people from low-income families in the city, and found that environmental factors in schools are significant predictors of social problems. This means that exposure to a negative school environment, such as a low commitment to school and teachers' low expectations, partly contribute to involvement in social problems among students. This means exposure to risk factors of media contributes to increased involvement in social problems
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