Application of SFBC Counseling (Solution Focused Brief Counseling) to Reduce High School Students' Academic Procrastination Behavior

Abstract

The results showed 1) the level of students' academic procrastination during the pretest in the experimental and control groups was in the high category. At the time of the posttest, the level of academic procrastination of the experimental group students changed to the low category, and the control group remained in the high category. 2) The implementation of group counseling is carried out according to the procedures that have been designed through four meetings, namely building good relations and identifying problems, setting goals to be achieved with the miracle question technique, strengthening new behavior and encouraging change through the exception question technique, and conducting behavior change analysis experienced, termination and evaluation. 3) There were significant differences in students' academic procrastination behavior in the group that was given the treatment and in the group that was not given the treatment in the form of SFBC counseling. Based on data analysis, it is known that there is a decrease in the level of academic procrastination after the SFBC group counseling is carried out with a sig.(2-tailed) value of 0.000 which is less than the value of α0.05 (0.000≤0.05) thus H0 is rejected and H1 is accepted. In addition, the average gain score for academic procrastination in the experimental group was higher, which was 33 and the control group was 3.12.