Developing a guide of group counselling with cognitive behaviour model in Indonesian Junior High Schools Students

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to produce and test the effectiveness of the guide of group counseling with the cognitive behavior model in improving junior high school student’s understanding of the dangers of bullying. It employed seven out of nine stages of research and development by Sugiyono. The effectiveness test relied on the experimental method with the one-group pretest-posttest design involving 15 junior high school students as the subject. Further, questionnaires were used as the primary data collection technique. The data were then analyzed by applying the percentage analysis and t-test. The results showed a guide of group counseling with a cognitive behavior model to improve students’ understanding of the dangers of bullying had been produced; the guide was also proven to be effective in bettering the understanding of the dangers of bullying.

Keywords: Bullying; cognitive behavior model; group counseling.