Breaking the Cycle of Low Flourishing: The Effectiveness of CBT-Based Individual Counseling among Adolescents

Abstract

Flourishing in children is a condition to what extent a child is affectionate, curious, laughs, and bounces back when facing challenges. Low flourishing in students needs to be a special concern for guidance and counseling teachers. Guidance and counseling teachers are parties who need to contribute to improving flourishing. Individual counseling is one of the responsive services that can be provided by BK teachers in overcoming low flourishing in students. One of the techniques of individual counseling Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) that can be used is cognitive restructuring which is a technique with a method of finding and assessing a person's cognition, understanding the negative influence of thoughts on behavior, then learning to replace these cognitions with better thoughts. This study focuses on efforts to test individual counseling services using the cognitive behavior therapy approach using the cognitive restructuring technique to improve low flourishing in students, with research subjects being class XI MA Al Azhar Wirosari students. From the entire intervention process, it can be concluded that the use of individual counseling using the cognitive behavior therapy approach using the cognitive restructuring technique in overcoming low flourishing is effective to implement.