SEFT Based Individual Counseling to Reduce the Academic Anxiety

Abstract

The results showed that the level of academic anxiety experienced by junior high
 school students in the Province of Special District of Yogyakarta can be categorized
 as moderate. It was also revealed that Guidance and Counseling teachers also have
 been doing something in reducing these problems by providing counseling either
 individually or in groups to their students and using a variety of appropriate approaches
 and techniques, though it was not maximized. Based on these results, the need for
 more simple and techniques can then be applied when the Guidance and Counseling
 teachers provide individual counseling services. One technique which can be given
 is the SEFT technique (Spiritual Emotional Freedom Technique). Due to the problems
 above, this research aims to produce SEFT-based individual counseling skills model in
 reducing the student’s academic anxiety.