Adinuringtyas Herfi Rahmawati, Suwarjo, Heru Budi Utomo
This study aims to investigate the effect of basic skills counseling in peer counseling for adolescent students in studied Indonesian school. Peer facilitator program becomes a necessity for the students to have a good friend. Seeing the importance of the program for students, guidance and counseling teachers need to reach more students through peer counseling program in schools. The research method used a pre-test and post-test model with Wilcoxon Signed Two Rank Test on 14 students Youth Information and Counseling Center in representative high school. A significant change has been detected at attending skills, summarizing skills, questioning skills, behave genuinely skills, behave assertive skills, confrontation skills and problem-solving skills parameters but not at empathizing skills when the pre-test and post-test were compared. These results supported the observation to the checklist and interviews, which showed that adolescent students could do a peer counseling with other friends. This research is then beneficial for guidance and counseling teacher in conducting peer counseling services at Indonesia schools. Copyright©2019 by authors, all rights reserved.
Guidance and Counseling Program Graduate School, Yogyakarta State University, Indonesia; PT. Media Sinar Utama, Indonesia
