IMPROVING STUDENT SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE BY USING BEHAVIORAL REHEARSAL TECHNIQUES IN EDUCATION

Abstract

His papers discusses the Group Guidance Program Using Behavioral Rehearsal Techniques to Improve Student Social Intelligence. The main problem studied in this papers is how to improve the social intelligence of high school students using the Reheaarsal Behavioral technique. Social intelligence is the ability of humans or individuals to reach a maturity in consciousness thinking to act as social beings and do social interaction with others. To improve social intelligence, adolescents must pay attention to special interaction skills which include (1) having situational awareness. (2) Ability to bring oneself or presence in the environment, (3) authenticity, (4) clarity, (5) empathy. If adolescents cannot improve social intelligence, these adolescents will experience obstacles in their development, especially in the social field. The approach used in this study was to be able to improve students' social intelligence namely Behavioral with Behavioral Rehearsal techniques. Of the many counseling techniques that can be used to improve students' social intelligence, researchers decide to use the Rehearsal Behavioral technique. The reason researchers use this technique is because social intelligence is related to behavior caused by students in daily life, whereas the Behavioral Rehearsal technique is a type of behavioral therapy, therefore according to researchers this technique can change important behaviors into positive ones. The use of behavioral rehearsal techniques is expected to be applicable because the purpose of this technique is to generally create new conditions or new behaviors for learning, and the specific goal is for counselees to obtain new behaviors, which are trained in group guidance sessions and applied in daily life counselee.