COUNS-EDU: The International Journal of Counseling and Education
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The problems of junior high school students
Get PDFProblem is a state that is not in line with expectations and must be solved immediately. The junior high school student is in the early adolescent phase, which finds many major changes in him that can cause problems. Guidance and conseling services should be provided in accordance with the problems experienced by students and their needs. However, guidance and conseling teachers have difficulty identifying the problems that affect the giving of guidance and counseling services. This study observes the problems experienced by students in junior high school with the number of respondents as many as 193 students. They are first year students of junior high school in Yogyakarta. We analyzed student problems using survey methods with problem-based guidance and counseling instrument, namely Alat Ungkap Masalah (AUM) Umum. The results showed that the 3 highest problem experienced by junior high school students in Yogyakarta covered 45% of he Social Relationship, 44% Personality, and Physical Health got 40%
Have school counselors assessed students’ anxiety?
Get PDFAnxiety needs to be assessed and reduced so that it does not interfere with the mission of adolescent development. Guidance and counseling services in formal education must be provided based on the assessment of needs, one of which is in dealing with anxiety. This study was qualitative research with a type of phenomenology. The data related to the implementation of anxiety assessment were collected using interviews and observations. The participants were 15 Senior High School counselors in Yogyakarta. The data analysis was conducted using qualitative data analysis. The results of the study showed that there were still many school counselors who had not deeply assessed students’ anxiety. There were still school counselors who experienced obstacles in assessing students’ anxiety, such as regarding the time, analytical skills, students’ openness problems, and there were no instruments that could be applied easily
Expressive writing changes grief into meaning – a sequential explanatory design approach
Get PDFThe purpose of the present study was to describe the effect of expressive writing on the level of one’s grief through a sequential design (expressive writing experiments for 3 consecutive days for 15 minutes each days then an analysis of the participant’s writing contents was conducted). This study used a pre-post test matching technique experimental design follow up by content analysis. The total number of participants (both in the experimental and control groups) was 30 (M-age = 21.2; SD = 1.2), lost their parents more than six month. Randomized matching technique was use to divide participant into experimental (expressive writing) and control (non-expressive writing).The baseline score measured by the complicated grieving inventory of >25 (Prigereson, 1995). Results showed that the experimental group had a decreased level of grief relative to the control group, the texts showed an interested result to be further discussed
Effectivenes of Group Counseling with People-Centered Approach to Improve Student’s social skills
Get PDFHumans are social beings who can not live alone and always have relationships with others. Each individual is expected to be able to relate well with other individuals in order to fulfill social needs. Fulfillment of good relationships with others requires skills of social skills. However, in reality there are still students who do not have good social skills. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of group counseling with a person centered approach to students' social skills. The method used is quasi experimental research with non-equivalent control group design. The research was conducted in SMP Negeri 8 Yogyakarta with sample of 10 students of class VII. The instrument used in this study is the scale of social skills. Data analysis technique using wilcoxon test. The results showed that group counseling with a person centered approach was effective on the students' social skills
Guidance and counseling profession: a philosophy and professional challenges in the future
Get PDFAs a science, guidance and counseling has become a helping profession that has been approved by society in the world, especially in academic and practical profession. In the begining, counseling was growth and developed in America which concern in how to place someone qualified with one work, this focus was to make a career decision through a counseling interview and assessmen, and also growth to help people to make decision and learn something new about them self in theraputic process, with psychological threatment and technique. As a multidicipliner science, counseling more flexible than any other dicipline. But in this 21 century counseling as a profession that has been challenges by something that must admit and counselor must know about this, such counseling multicultural, indigineous science that become an interesting subject, counseling has a value contract or not?, and counseling to educate and make client learn something or something that client found by them self? With liberate counseling?. This article will discuss more further about paradigm of guidance and counseling profession with point of view a philosophy and professional challenges in the future that must be understanding and face in the future without lose our cultural and religion values
The role of career exploration in career decision participants
Get PDFAbstractIn the digital era, humans were required to be more able to develop themselves according to potentials owned so that it was important for each individual to understand his/her ability and also able to develop other various skills. Career selection was one of most important decision making processes in individual living. However, today learners were facing various different career environment both in characteristics as well as their kinds, and also trend of learners who were less understand potentials owned both due to their ignorance as well as due to they do not explore nor develop potentials owned so that it gives a negative impact for himself/herself in a career decision so that needed roles of career exploration in a career decision making. Therefore, understanding, awareness and acceptance towards potentialsowned by each individual is necessary in supporting learner career in the future. Efforts conducted in preparing learner career were very much. One of efforts in preparing it was by exploring career. Career exploration was defined as an individual desire to explore or search information towards career information sources. Roles of career exploration in a career decision was related to a career exploration region includes selection orientation, self-exploration, environmental exploration, in-depth environmental exploration, decision status and commitment
The application of structure equation modeling analysis for assessment and educational research
Get PDFThe purpose of this study is discovering and confirmingthe essentialfunction of Structure Equation Modeling (SEM) Analysis for assessment and educational research. The literatures in regards to SEM analysis as method of assessment and educational research will be descriptive analyzed and explored in the light of meta-analysis. The result of the study shown that by using SEM analysis ones get empirical data and clear picture of student’s need and do right assessment and research in education. The empirical data enable scholars and government to set new or revise current education program for the future. Therefore this result should be considered as important data for government, especially Education department to establish curriculum and planning strategy of teaching and learning which is conjunction with reality in the field. It means the education program that been established and will develop really match with real life and needs of student, society and the nation. So SEM analysis is important method for each researchers and scholars to run assessment and educational research now and beyond
Are high school students motivated to attend counseling ?
Get PDFCounseling is the core of the implementation of guidance and counseling services at the school as a whole. The success of counseling is a guarantee for the success of different types of guidance and counseling services. Unfortunately, not many students who voluntarily went to a counselor for help through the implementation of counseling. This research aims to describe the motivation of students to attend counseling. The research used survey method with 316 students of High School students. The results show that most students have not been motivated to follow counseling. Based on these findings, further research is needed on the factors that influence student motivation, as well as the efforts should be done by counselors and other stakeholders to increase students' motivation to attend counseling
Motivation and innovation role of school’s principal in improving teacher professionalism
Get PDFThe main purpose of this study is to determine the motivation and innovation role of principals in improving the professionalism of teachers at SMK Negeri in Padang City. The design of mixed methods. A total of 261 teachers were included as respondents to answer the distributed questionnaires, and a total of 12 respondents were included in the interview, consisting of principals and expert teachers. The findings indicate that the main role in improving the professionalism of teachers is still at a moderate level. This study also shows that the role of principal motivation and innovation has a significant influence in improving the professionalism of teachers in teaching and learning. Based on qualitative results determined that the role of principal motivation and innovation is an important factor to improve the professionalism of teachers. This study emphasizes that the role of principal motivation and innovation in enlightening teacher professionalism is an absolute factor
Impact of adversity intelligence and work commitment on cyberloafing behavior
Get PDFThis study aimed to determine the effect of intelligence adversity and work commitment to cyberloafing behavior of lecturer at the Asean Economic Community (MEA)’s era. So, this research beneficial to the development of theoretical science of industrial and organizational psychology about work behavior, as well as suggestions to keep the factors that make lecturer can avoid unproductive work habits that was cyberloafing, given the importance of the role of the faculty. This study used a quantitative method by spreading questionnaires to lecturers consisting of adversity intelligence scale, work commitment scale, and cyberloafing behavior scale that researchers collated by self, and analyzed statistically to discussed the cyberloafing behavior of lecturers. According to Lim (2002) cyberloafing an employee volunteer activities in the office, in using the internet access that has no correlation in the work. The result of this research showed that there is correlation between adversity intelligence and work commitment with cyberloafing behavior based on p value = 0,042 hence acceptable hypothesis, and contribution of adversity intelligence and work commitment equal to 19% to cyberloafing behavior. It is expected to be a suggestion for Higher Education to improve the quality of lecturer in facing MEA