Ecological Counseling as an Integrative Cognitive Complexity Intervention Framework for Students with COVID-19 Pandemic-Caused Mental Health Challenges

This article aims to present a practical conceptual perspective on ecological counseling as a theoretical framework for counselors' integrative cognitive complexity to work with students who experience mental health challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The transition of educational activities into virtual learning has caused various challenges for students worldwide that risk their mental health. Indonesia is one of the countries implementing virtual learning for more than a year with various social, technical, and environmental obstacles. Besides the benefit of distanced learning, this online learning model has widely caused mild to severe anxiety among students. Although researchers have investigated the impacts of virtual learning on mental health problems, the intervention strategies to help students with mental health issues remain lack attention. Ecological counseling has been known for its principles of seeing individuals' mental health issues involving a broader milieu that allows counselors to understand clients according to their contextual living systems. This framework offers a culturally sensitive perspective to help counselors withdraw appropriate and best available information for intervention purposes. This article also includes an application illustration of the ecological counseling framework in the Indonesian community as a practical guideline. It is expected that this article provides academic supports for academics to work with students dealing with their mental health challenges during this pandemic adhere to the counselors' integrative cognitive complexity functions.Keywords: ecological counseling, cognitive complexity, COVID-19 mental health, counselors, Indonesia

Adiwiyata Program for Students in the Study of Psychology of Learning and Ecological Counseling Guidance

<p style="text-align: justify;">Researchers have conducted studies on the planning, implementation, management and evaluation of the <em>Adiwiyata </em>program in the context of school activities. However, a specific analysis has not been identified in the field of Learning Psychology and Environmental Counseling. The aim of this study is therefore to analyze the <em>Adiwiyata</em> program in the study of Learning Psychology and Ecological Guidance. This literature study was conducted by analyzing the primary sources of the Regulation of the Minister of the Environment of the Republic of Indonesia No. 05 of 2013 on the Guidelines for the Implementation of the <em>Adiwiyata</em> Program and No. P.52/Menlhk/Setjen/Kum.1/9/2019 on the Movement of Environmental Care and Culture in Schools (PBLHS Movement). The results showed that the psychology of learning of the <em>Adiwiyata</em> programme could be integrated into the learning process as well as educational facilities for students using the school environment by considering the psychological development of the students. In the meantime, the <em>Adiwiyata</em> program in the study of ecological counseling guidance can be internalized in creating programs or applied in guidance and counseling services for students to solve the problems and to form students' self-awareness and environmental awareness.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Kajian</em> <em>penerapan</em> <em>program Adiwiyata mulai dari perencanaan, pelaksanaan, pengelolaan, serta evaluasi maupun penerapan dalam kegiatan di sekolah telah banyak dilakukan. Namun belum ditemukan analisis spesifik dalam kajian psikologi belajar dan bimbingan konseling ekologi. Oleh karena itu, penelitian ini bertujuan menganalisis program Adiwiyata bagi siswa dalam kajian psikologi belajar dan bimbingan konseling ekologi. Metode yang digunakan adalah studi kepustakaan dengan menganalisis sumber primer dari Peraturan Menteri Lingkungan Hidup Republik Indonesia Nomor 05 Tahun 2013 Tentang Pedoman Pelaksanaan Program Adiwiyata dan Nomor P.52/Menlhk/Setjen/Kum.1/9/2019 Tentang Gerakan Peduli dan Berbudaya Lingkungan Hidup di Sekolah (Gerakan PBLHS). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan program Adiwiyata berdasarkan kajian psikologi belajar dapat diintegrasikan dalam proses belajar mengajar maupun sarana edukasi siswa melalui pemanfaatan lingkungan sekolah dengan mempertimbangkan perkembangan psikologis siswa. Sedangkan Program Adiwiyata dalam kajian bimbingan konseling ekologi bisa diinternalisasi dalam pembuatan program maupun diaplikasikan dalam layanan bimbingan dan konseling bagi siswa untuk mendapatkan solusi atas masalahnya maupun membentuk kesadaran diri siswa maupun kesadaran pada lingkungan</em>.</p>

Faith-Base Communities (FBCs) in Ecological Counseling (EC) to Promote Well-Being (WB) in Millenial Era

<p><span lang="IN">Well-being are the populer issues among academic researchers. This issues related to any change in millennial era. This article aimed to explain how faith</span><span>-</span><span lang="IN">base community (FBCs) could promote well-being (WB) in </span><span lang="EN-ID">millennial era.</span><span lang="IN"> Data gathered by literature study included journal articles and book</span><span>s</span><span lang="IN">. The results of the study indicate</span><span>d </span><span lang="IN"><span> </span>that </span><span>the </span><span lang="IN">efforts to promote well-being wellbeing </span><span>could</span><span lang="IN"> be done with collaborative efforts of counselors with </span><span lang="EN-ID">faith</span><span lang="IN"> communities. There were many evidence show</span><span>ed</span><span lang="IN"> that </span><span>f</span><span lang="IN">aith</span><span>-</span><span lang="IN">base community (FBCs) could<span> </span>be important collaborators to deliver a mission of morality and bring the mission of promoting psychological well-being (WB) in society. The implication of the s</span><span>tudy that</span><span lang="IN"> counselors ha</span><span>d</span><span lang="IN"> to have the ecological competences that could lead the counselor to the multicultural thinking paradigm, as well as the development of the systemic intervention framework.</span></p><p><span lang="IN"><br />Kesejahteraan psikologis merupakan kajian yang populer dikalangan peneliti. Kajian ini berkatian dengan beberapa perubahan di era milenial. Artikel ini bertujuan untuk menjelaskan mengenai komunitas beragama yang dapat berfungsi sebagai alternative untuk mempromosikan kesejahteraan psikologis di era milenial. Data yang diperoleh dalam penulisan artikel ini dilakukan dengan melakukan kajian literatur. Hasil kajian ini menunjukkkan adanya beberapa bukti bahwa komunitas beragama dapat menjadi kolaborator penting dalam menyampaikan misi moralitas dan misi tercapainya kesejahteraan psikologis di masyarakat. Implikasi temuan ini terhadap profesi konseling yaitu agar konselor memiliki komptensi ekologis yang akan membantunya memiliki paradigma multukultural, maupun pengembangan kerangka intervensi sistemik.</span></p>