SEFT Based Individual Counseling to Reduce the Academic Anxiety
Abstract
The results showed that the level of academic anxiety experienced by junior high school students in the Province of Special District of Yogyakarta can be categorized as moderate. It was also revealed that Guidance and Counseling teachers also have been doing something in reducing these problems by providing counseling either individually or in groups to their students and using a variety of appropriate approaches and techniques, though it was not maximized. Based on these results, the need for more simple and techniques can then be applied when the Guidance and Counseling teachers provide individual counseling services. One technique which can be given is the SEFT technique (Spiritual Emotional Freedom Technique). Due to the problems above, this research aims to produce SEFT-based individual counseling skills model in reducing the student’s academic anxiety.
Keywords: counseling; SEFT; academic anxiety
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