The Effectiveness of Assertive Training Therapy to Emotional Management Ablity of School Age Children in Woromarto 1 Elementary School
Assertive Training Therapy represent a training technique to teach and familiarize individualsbehave assertively in relationships with other people, able to control himself, feel free and fun, ableto respond to love things and express love and affect people who are very meaningful in their life. Theobjective of this research was to know the effect of Assertive Training therapy to the ability to manageemotions of school children (age 9-11 years). The research design used Quasy Experimental with thepopulation of 32 children with purposive sampling technique. The research instruments used observationand questionnaires with statistical test of Mann Whitney < with result 0,02 < 0,05 that meansH0 rejected means there was difference between control group and intervention group, and also theexistence of influence on intervention group. Based on the data indicated that most of children beforeconducted intervention had aggressive behavior, but after the giving of intervention of Assertive TrainingTherapy the children behavior changes becomes assertive. This because during the interventionchildren taught the way to express feeling correctly by conducted therapy of four sessions. Parents andteachers were expected to understand what the child feels in managing emotions to assist children inexpressing the desire that the child feels in a way of Assertive Training Therapy that includes 4 sessions.