The purpose of this study is to examine the psychometric status of the Brief Resilience Scale (BRS). The BRS is a brief self-rating questionnaire to measure resilience. This instrument consists of six items and was administered on 120 international students studying at a public university in Malaysia. The sample consists of 76 male and 44 female, with a mean age of 24.4 years old. The BRS met the requirement for the implementation of PCA based on the Bartlett test of Sphericity and the Kaiser Mayer Olkin. Factor analysis reveals a single factor with eigenvalues above 1.0, which accounted for 73.54% of the total variance. Reliability analysis using Cronbach's Alpha was .93, indicating that the scale has good reliability. This study demonstrates that BRS is appropriate to be used by college personnel and counselors to examine and identify resiliency among college students in Malaysia. Suggestions for future study are also discussed.

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This paper aims to conceptually explain about the aspect of online counseling as an alternative to the new millennium service. The online counseling service offered is influenced by technological progress that people enjoy today and many aspects of the present socio-economic impacts. It will also affect the style of the environment, innovation and reform in the field of counseling. Along with these developments, age of counseling services has changed towards the cultivation of creative and innovative thinking which is able to make online counseling as a new alternative in counseling services that enables helping relationships to happen quickly and effectively via online mediums such as telephone, email, and chat room. This service is not meant to replace face-to-face psychotherapy, but is useful as an alternative resource for assistance in dealing with the problems of living with the advantages of belonging. However, there are still limitations in the implementation of online counseling including aspects of issues and ethics that need to be examined by practitioners who wish to offer this service. Thus, this paper will discuss all these vital elements of online counseling, in order to implement it in Malaysian context.

This study was undertaken to explore the critical factors influencing the self-concept of community college graduates in the development of their careers. Individuals with a positive self-concept are often associated with a good career choices and a well-panned career development path. Hence community college students should be girded with a positive self-concept to ensure success in their future careers. This qualitative research using multiple case study methods involved 15 community college graduates who have been relatively successful in their respective careers and were able to generate high incomes. Further data obtained were analysed using NVivo 8.0 to determine the relevant themes that emerged. The study observed the presence of five critical internal factors influencing self-concept: congruence, boldness in facing a challenge, vision, skills and experience.