The Effectiveness of Solution-Focused Brief Career Group Counseling to Reduce Student Career Indecision

Abstrak

Career indecision is the difficulty faced by individuals in making decisions about career, work, and further education. This study examines the effectiveness of solution-focused brief career counseling group counseling to reduce career indecision for vocational high school students. Using this type of experimental research with pretest-posttests random control group design. The research subjects involved 12 students: the experimental group (6 students) and the control group (6 students). The effectiveness of counseling was assessed by changing the pretest and post-test results on students. To measure the level of career indecision assessed using the Career Decision-making Difficulties Questionnaire (CDDQ). Stages of group counseling solution-focused brief focus career counseling in the counseling process; Pre-session change, Relationship development, Problem Clarification and Goal setting; Miracle Question, Scale for goal setting, incorporating systems thinking; Constructing meaningful homework, Write down all the strengths of the client & evaluation. The results showed that the solution-focused brief career counseling group effectively reduced students' career indecision. The implications of the findings of this study are discussed in the article.