The purpose of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of Career Counseling Model towards the inmates’ career maturity and their self-concept level. This research has used experimental design, in w hich experimental and control group, were involved. The total of 64 respondents was purposively selected, 32 of each group, were from two different drug rehabilitation centers. Two instruments were used in the experiment which were Career Maturity Scale (CMI) and Tennesse Self-Concept Scales (TSCS), to measure two variables which were career maturity and self-concept, respectively. The hypotheses were tested by using t-test and the mean score. The result showed that there is a positive significant difference of the mean score of CMI between pre-test (11.1563) and post-test (15.6250) of the experimental group, t= -4.874 (p= 0.00 < 0.05). The result also showed that there is a significant positive difference in the mean score of TSCS between pre-test (232.9000) and the post-test (241.5667) of the experimental group, t= -3.373 (p= 0.002 < 0.05). Both results implied that there was a positive impact on respondents’ career maturity and self-concept level after going through the treatment. Therefore, this study has proven the effectiveness of Career Counseling Therapy in developing inmates’ career maturity and self-concept level.
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