Page No 262-274
H. Herdi, Sunaryo Kartadinata & Agus Taufiq
Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Bandung, Indonesia
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Wisdom of multicultural counsellor are important issues as well as interesting in
multiculturalcounsellingand psychology. The purpose of this research is to explore the
multicultural counsellor’s wisdom according to the perspective of Indonesian counsellor
candidates. The survey was employed as the research design. The research participants
cover 489 Indonesian counsellor candidates. The Counsellor Wisdom Adjective Scale
was used as the data collection method. The exploratory factor analysis was applied
as the data analysis techniques. The results show that there are ten dimensions of
multicultural counsellor’s wisdom according to the perspective of Indonesian counsellor
candidates. There are namely: social intelligence, Meta cognitive skills, personal
intelligence, emotional intelligence, sagacity, empathy, judgment, tolerance of ambiguity,
managing problems and uncertainties, and religious. Further research is needed to
assess the dimensions of wisdom according to the perspectives of counsellor educators,
counsellors, and counselee to reveal results that are more compact. Implications for
counsellor education and supervision program are discussed
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