Development of A Guidance and Counseling Pocketbook on Students' Mental Health Awareness

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the needs, examine the prototype, and determine the feasibility of a guidance and counseling pocketbook on mental health understanding for senior high school students, equipped with an If-Then game. This research and development study used the Four-D (4D) model, limited to the Develop stage, and was conducted at SMA Negeri 1 Batang Kuis with twelfth-grade students. Data were collected through observation, an interview with the guidance and counseling teacher, a needs questionnaire, validation questionnaires from a material expert and a media expert, and response questionnaires from the guidance and counseling teacher and students, and were analyzed descriptively as percentages. The needs analysis showed that students had a basic understanding of mental health that was still general and incomplete, so they needed media that is engaging, practical, and suitable for independent learning. The prototype is an 8 × 10 cm pocketbook of 24 pages organized according to Carl Rogers’ strategy for maintaining mental health, namely self-understanding, self-acceptance, and directing oneself toward the ideal self, and it includes an If-Then game for independent reflection. The validation results gave the pocketbook 90.8% from the material expert and 88% from the media expert, both in the “very feasible” category. A limited trial produced positive responses from the guidance and counseling teacher (88%) and students (85.3%), also in the “very feasible” category. Therefore, the pocketbook is feasible as a supporting medium for information services in guidance and counseling, while its effectiveness should be tested in future research.