The Effectiveness of the Solution-Focused Brief Counseling Approach to Increase Social Awareness in Class VIII A Students at Enrekang 2 Public Middle School

Vol. 7 – No. 1, year (2023), page 932-941 | ISSN 2548-8201 (Print) | 2580-0469) (Online) | The Effectiveness of the Solution-Focused Brief Counseling Approach to Increase Social Awareness in Class VIII A Students at Enrekang 2 Public Middle School Mawaddatul Maykam1, Muhammad Junaedi Mahyuddin2, Aisyah Suryani3, Fitriyanti Sulaiman4, M. Yunus Sudirman5 1,2,3,4,5 (Bimbingan dan Konseling, FKIP/Universitas Muhammadiyah Enrekang, Indonesia) * Corresponding Author. E-mail: Receive: 01/02/2023 Accepted: 21/02/2023 Published: 01/03/2023 Abstract Social awareness is a process in which a person understands and understands a situation that makes the individual himself aware and understands very well what is happening and what will happen. Facts on the ground show that students at SMP Negeri 2 Enrekang have experienced a decline in social awareness. This is why researchers offer solutions to increase students' social awareness by using SFBC counseling (solution-focused brief counseling). The use of this approach places more emphasis on short counseling times and has a lot of research that proves its effectiveness. The purpose of this study was to determine the application of the approach and the effectiveness of the solution-focused brief counseling approach in increasing social awareness among students at SMP Negeri 2 Enrekang. The research method used in this study is a quantitative research method with a one group pretest-posttest research design. The sample used in this study were 10 students in class VIII A at SMP Negeri 2 Enrekang. The results showed that the use of the SFBC approach with the scaling question technique had an effect on increasing students' social awareness compared to without using the SFBC approach with the scaling question technique. Keywords: SFBC approach, Scaling Question, Social Awareness INTRODUCTION Education can be defined as the process of using this method to help people gain knowledge, understanding, and this method to work well. Humans are complex creatures that are difficult to understand because of their uniqueness. This uniqueness is what distinguishes the human being from another organism and one person is the same as another. i When i socialize in front of the public, i the community cannot be separated from the need for communication either verbally, in writing or otherwise Education is every effort and effort to change the attitude and behavior that is desired for all society to be able to develop human potential so that they have spiritual spiritual power or religion, have selfcontrol, have personality, have intelligence, have noble character, and also have the skills that are needed as a member of the community and ideal citizen of the country. Education in Indonesia today tends to prioritize mastery of scientific and intellectual aspects, but ignores Islamic education. Reforming the education system is seen as very important to produce a superior generation that will become the foundation of hope for the people in the future, and this can be done by people who care and have high social awareness. Isocial awareness is a process in which a person understands and understands a situation that makes the individual himself Copyright © 2023 Edumaspul - Jurnal Pendidikan (ISSN 2548-8201 (cetak); (ISSN 2580-0469 (online) Jurnal Edumaspul, 7 (1), Year 2023 - 932 (Mawaddatul Maykam, Muhammad Junaedi Mahyuddin, Aisyah Suryani, Fitriyanti Sulaiman, M. Yunus Sudirman) aware of and understands exactly what is happening, and what is going to happen. Social awareness is a form of selfawareness that recognizes our personality and then becomes aware of the influence of these factors on judgments, decisions and our interactions with other people. Social awareness needs to be built on the self of each individual in everyday life in society. One of them can be pursued by building social awareness that can be through the development of a sense of empathy for other people. This social awareness will give rise to social skills i.e. the ability to create social relations that are harmonious and satisfying, i. adjustments to the i-social environment and i. solve the isocial problems that i face as well as priests. and priest i made a decision. Seeing this, it is said that social awareness has disappeared, so that every member of society has the tendency to do whatever they want without regard to the social conventions that apply. If this continues to happen and there is no effort to change the situation for the better, then it can be ascertained that life in society will not be peaceful, those who are strong will have power, those who are smart will rule over those who are stupid and those who are rich will dominate the poor. Facts in the field show that students in class IVIII iA at iState Junior High School i2 iEnrekang have experienced a decrease in social awareness. In this millennial era, SMP Negeri 2 Enrekang experienced many changes. Especially the changes in the quality of the educated participants. Slightly more students at i2 iEnrekang i2 State Junior High Schools' social values are still not good enough, some of them are still doing things that have not been in accordance with their social values they should be, for example some students are still busy chatting with loud voices while studying or when the teacher is explaining class, and the way i communicate with the teacher sometimes i still use the language which is not quite right or not good enough. Also, the relationship between fellow students is still said to be far from being socially aware, it is proven by fighting between students, it occurs between students, bullying occurs between fellow students, even some students feel more senior than their younger siblings, for reasons of high feelings of heart, as in the process of interacting with or from the students themselves. . All of these will have disastrous consequences for their future if they are allowed to remain as they are. This is because they will lose their sense of respect for those who are superior, and this will reflect bad behavior in the future society. This is the reason why researchers offer solutions to increase students' social awareness by using iSFBC counseling (isolation-focused brief counseling) i. the use of this approach places more emphasis on the short time counseling and has a lot of research that proves its effectiveness. positive i to be used iwith icons that vary and focus on basic changes in thinking that emphasize small changes in behavior. In this way, social awareness becomes the key to the importance of capital for living a social life, this shows the importance of social awareness which is sufficient for students to have in their late teens who will be included in the order of a wider society. The reason researchers used the SFBC approach as a technique used in increasing students' social awareness was because it was seen that the SFBC approach had its own advantages compared to other servi (...truncated)