Value Conflicts in Counseling Muslim LGBT Clients: Muslim Counsellors’ Experiences
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.200814.032How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- value conflicts, grounded theory, LGBT clients
- Abstract
The counselling profession has an affirmative stance towards LGBT clients. It is contradicting to the religious beliefs upheld by majority counsellors in the Muslim society. The difference between the stance of the counselling profession and religious beliefs create value conflicts among Muslim counsellors from the mainstream group. A grounded theory approach was used to explain how Muslim counsellors experience value conflicts in counselling Muslim LGBT clients. In-depth interviews were conducted with six counsellors at Public Institutions of Higher Education (PIHE) in Peninsular Malaysia. The findings revealed that the Muslim counsellors experienced three types of value conflicts; conflicting goals, conflicting roles, and conflicting interests. In overcoming the conflicts, they used three strategies; seeking information, prioritizing religious over professional values, and balancing between personal and professional interests.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Syarifah Rohaniah Syed Mahmood AU - Ssekamanya Siraje Abdallah PY - 2020 DA - 2020/08/14 TI - Value Conflicts in Counseling Muslim LGBT Clients: Muslim Counsellors’ Experiences BT - Proceedings of the 2nd International Seminar on Guidance and Counseling 2019 (ISGC 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 143 EP - 149 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200814.032 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.200814.032 ID - Mahmood2020 ER -