Relationship between self-efficacy and organizational commitment among substance abuse counsellors of methadone maintenance therapy

In Malaysia, Methadone Maintenance Therapy (MMT) is a harm-reduction strategy program and methadone is known as corrective therapy in Malaysia (Wickersham, et as., 2012; Mohamed, et al, 2010). The counsellors have a big role to provide the counselling and information related to treatment of MMT. The...

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Main Authors: Mariapah, Sinthumathi, Ahmad, Jamaludin, Wan Jaafar, Wan Marzuki
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: Faculty of Educational Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia 2016
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/60167/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/60167/1/53-22.pdf
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Summary:In Malaysia, Methadone Maintenance Therapy (MMT) is a harm-reduction strategy program and methadone is known as corrective therapy in Malaysia (Wickersham, et as., 2012; Mohamed, et al, 2010). The counsellors have a big role to provide the counselling and information related to treatment of MMT. Therefore, it is necessary for a counsellor in MMT to have high self-efficacy and is committed to the organization they are working. The study focuses on the assimilation of the counsellors’ self-efficacy and organizational commitment of MMT in Malaysia. Hence the main objective is to study the relationship between the self-efficacy and organizational commitment of Methadone Maintenance Therapy in Malaysia. This research is a quantitative research.