In their first session, the counseling intern learned that Jane’s son had been diagnosed with brain cancer. The therapist then elicited the client’s thoughts and feelings about her son’s diagnosis. Jane expressed feelings of guilt and the thought that if she had done more about the early symptoms, this never would have happened to her son. Hearing this guilt producing thought, the intern spent much of the remaining session disputing it. As the session ended, the client was more despondent.

After processing this session in supervision, the intern was no longer surprised that Jane had not kept a follow-up appointment. The initial session had occurred near the end of the intern’s second week, and she had been eager to practice cognitive disputation, which she believed was appropriate in this case. In answer to the supervisor’s question of why she had concluded this, the intern responded that “it felt right.”

Sebagai upaya untuk meningkatkan kompetensi serta kecakapan profesional civitas akademika, Jurusan BK FIP UNP menyelenggarakan kuliah umum dengan narasumber yang berasal dari luar negeri. Kegiatan ini merupakan hasil kolaborasi dari Prodi S1, S2 S3 dan PPK Jurusan BK FIP UNP.

Kuliah umum ini diselenggarakan sebanyak 3 seri dengan waktu yang berbeda dan narasumber yang berbeda pula. Untuk seri pertama, narasumber berasal dari Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), yaitu Dr. Ku Suhaila Ku Johari dengan tema Counseling Profession

Kegiatan Kuliah Umum ini terselenggara pada tanggal 5 November 2020 dengan diikuti oleh lebih dari 1200 orang secara daring, via Zoom Webinar dan Live Streaming Youtube