KONSELING KELOMPOK DENGAN TEKNIK DESENSITISASI SISTEMATIK UNTUK MENURUNKAN KECEMASAN SANTRI DI PONDOK PESANTREN AL IHYA ULUMADDIN

Abstract

Of the various kinds of activities available in lodges such as sorogan, deposit, khitobah, and others. This is a lesson for students to have courage and self-confidence which will become provisions in society later. But in reality not all students have it because of the anxiety experienced by the students such as nervousness cold sweats, palpitations, negative feelings and so on, which interfere with the effectiveness of carrying out existing activities. There are students who have not been able to condition their feelings of anxiety. The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of the application of group counseling with systematic desensitization techniques to reduce student anxiety.

This research method uses experimental research with a type of quasi-experimental research method carried out starting from the pretest, giving treatment and ending with the postest. The population in this study were new students of the Al Firdaus 1 complex where samples were taken based on pre-test questionnaire data before the researcher conducted the study, which was divided into two groups, namely the experimental group and the control group, both groups were carried out pre-test and post-test, from the pre-test results then taken 12 samples of students from the high category anxiety questionnaire. Where the samples taken were given a treatmet using group counseling with systematic desensitization techniques to reduce the anxiety experienced by the students. The data collection method in this study used a questionnaire method that was distributed to respondents to be filled out. The results showed that the anxiety before being given the treatment was high. Based on the results of the calculation of the pretest-posttest showed significant results, it can be seen from the results of the pretest of the experimental group that was 157.67 and the results of the posttest had a decrease of 132.17. So it can be concluded that group counseling with systematic desensitization techniques is effective in reducing students' anxiety.