Personal

Development
Journal 2 (PDJ)
Name : Nurizyan Liyana bte Hamidon
Id number : 2014975061
Class : ED247 1A
Lecturer’s name : Puan Hajah Noriza bt Hussin
 The topic that I choose for my second personal development journal is about bully. This
topic was inspired from the “Juvana” movie. Before I proceed with the contents in this topic
itself, I would like to summarize about the movie. Basically, this movie was directed by Faisal
Ishak and was shown on cinema two last years on January 18 th. “Juvana” shares the story of
seven friends consists of Botak (Johan Asari), Apek (Syazwan Zulkifli), Ayam (Adam Shah),
Kicap (Megat Farzeril), Komeng (Khairul Mohamed) and Panjang (Idzham Ismail) who are
transferred into a new youth detention center, while their another friends, Daim (Zahiril Adzim)
is released to start a new life after being found not guilty of killing his own parent.

The main character, Daim, who had been released from school due to juveniles found
innocent of killing his mother, now trying to live a life in the outside world. But he found that
life in the outside world is not much different from life in a prison juvenile. Daim started
attending secondary school in hopes of graduating his SPM. Daim is threatened by his fellow
classmates as he is labeled as a criminal in school. He does not give up on himself and his
academic studies, but instead seeks help from his crush Sara (Shiera Ayob). When he was bullied
by other students and do not have any friends but Sara is always there to help him. But at the
same time, guards at the school who knows his status as a former student of juveniles always
have his eyes on him. Daim is also working in a factory making bricks to support his life. His
status as a former student of juveniles also makes him getting weird attention from other
workers. If there is a mistake, he is the one who to blame.

Meanwhile, Wira Bakti school closed and Botak, Apek, Ayam, Kicap, Komeng and
Panjang were sent to a juvenile school to continue their sentence period. At the school, they were
subjected to Lan Todak (Sharnaaz Ahmad). Botak and his gang have no idea how to face the
challenges offered by Lan Todak because he is the head among the youngsters at the new
juvenile center. However Apek and the rest do not want to fight back because they practice what
they have learned from their teacher, Madam Zakiah at their previous juvenile. But Botak did not
agree and want to fight back with violence. Unluckily, they fall into the trap set up by Lan Todak
and thus they are punished to stay in a dark prison cell for starting a brawl. While undergoing the
punishment, Apek's ill mother passes away and he has no chance to see her again.
 Starting from that, Apek also began to realize that the teachings of Madame Zakiah are
ineffective in the new juvenile. He began to turn violent and ultimately take revenge for his
friends until he successfully led all the students. One day, Daim found out that the situation has
become worst for his friends at the new juvenile. He went to visit them and see for the changes
that have taken effect at his good friends, Botak and the rest. At that time, there is a riot led by
Lan Todak’s gang. He was unhappy because his friend Kecik eventually died. He blamed Botak
and Apek and wanted to revenge. The school tried to stop but they could not stop it. They try to
save all of the visitors in their school that day. Daim and his friends help the school to save not
only the visitors but also from Lan Todak. They managed to save all the visitors eventually but
Botak is back to the juvenile to face Lan Todak. In the chaos that occurred, Daim was almost
killed and this makes Apek be aware of his mistakes over the years.

So from all the characters above, I would like to make Lan Todak as my client to attend a
counseling session because I can see a good potential in him to change. As we know, the helping
process in a counseling session consists of five stages. First is attending, second is exploration,
followed by understanding, action and finally a termination. I will explain more about each stage
as we go down with the helping process in a counseling session with Lan Todak. From this
movie, we know that the character of Lan Todak as a guy who is always rebel. This helping
process means we will help Lan Todak as an individual and not based only on his character or
attitudes.

First stage is the attending which means client will attend a counseling session to meet
the counselor. At this stage, Lan Todak will give his first impressions about the counselor and
also states that problem. So the counselor must show good attitudes or good responds towards
him. Counselor must know the physical attending between the client. At this state, I will make
sure there is no physical object such as desk or cupboard that can prevent me from getting closer
to Lan Todak. But at the same time, I must maintain a comfortable working distance between me
and him and make sure it is not too close or too distant. I will face Lan Todak directly and
establish an eye contact when he is trying to tell what his problems without any judgments. Lan
Todak also feels relaxed because this sign shows that “I’m comfortable with you” and makes the
counseling session smooth until the next stage. This stage usually takes about 5-10 minutes
maximum.

Now we are moving on to second stage which is exploration. This stage takes about 15
minutes and at this stage Lan Todak will begins to explore me as a counselor who is someone
with less defensive. This is because, I started established him with trust and also shows concern
and caring towards him while he is talking about his problems. Still without judging him or his
problems, I will show to him my empathic responses and try to communicate with him with
respect and warmth. At this point, he will see his problems clearer and he becomes aware of his
self-destructive behaviors. I shall respond to his feelings and at the same time I will try to focus
more on his problems and gives feedback if he wants to. There will be a mild confrontation as he
becomes aware of his problems and now is more to self-disclosing. So it is better to help him
personalize or summarizes what he should do in future.

Third stage would be understanding stage which I must understand Lan Todak better than
before. As he will take responsibility for what he had done, I as a counselor will help him to
personalize his problems. I must deals with his intensified levels of feeling such as angry, sad or
regrets. At this part, Lan Todak will try to strengthen his commitment towards his problems and
identifies discrepancies between me and him. This is normal because client sometimes thinks
they are always right and me as a counselor should not judge him way too quickly. I will use
advanced levels of empathy and try to confront with him and show him what is right and what is
wrong so that we can cut over all the impasses. After that, he will develop insight to show that he
is ready to change and ready to terminate identification and understanding of problem in this
stage.

Before the last stage of termination, there is a stage called action. At this stage, Lan
Todak will put ideas and more insights into action. He will list as much as ideas he got and I will
help him to generate and evaluate his ideas. I will show him which one is better and let him
decide using a simple alternative test. Moving further into that, Lan Todak will set goals and
plans for what he should do in future. Me as a counselor will give him encouragement and
feedback to him for example if the goals are not met, I will ask him to revise his plan. But if the
goals are met, then I will ask tell him to move to a new problem or toward termination stage if he
wants to.

At the last stage, before we terminate our session, I will help him to complete unfinished
business with him such as evaluates gains. Ask Lan Todak if he has anything more to say or
plans because it will be my pleasure to hear if there is more from him. I will also acknowledge
his changes and support anything he wants to do in future. If he has nothing to say, I will assess
him to end the counseling session. I will ask him to give feedback or affirmation so he will not
repeat his mistakes again. Before terminate, I will arrange for follow ups with him in a few
months later to see or check if he is already turned into someone new or not in a better scope.