PERAN KONSELING KELUARGA DALAM MENGATASI PERMASALAHAN KELUARGA

Abstract

In essence, the family is a container that shapes and influences children’s attitudes and character. In forming a harmonious family and able to carry out their responsibilities as a family is not an easy thing, many families are unable to carry out their functions properly. The inability of the family in fostering harmonious relationships will be able to trigger problems in the family. Therefore, counseling provides a solution, namely the existence of a counseling service that is family in nature in finding and creating harmonious and balanced psychological conditions. Family counseling aims to encourage family members to have tolerance, realistic perceptions and be able to motivate and encourage family members. This research is library study, which is a data collecting step, examine and analyze data taken from the written literature that is relevant and related to problems that occur in a family. In this study, the focal point is the role of family counseling in overcoming family problems. Therefore, there are various problems that often arise in families and family counseling is one solution that can solve these problems. Meanwhile, this type of data uses primary and secondary data. In addition, the data analysis used reduction technique, presentation and verification and continued checking data for validity. The study results, the Problems that often arise in a family include sexual problems, education, work, inter and inter-family relations, economics, health, and religious issues. These problems are taken from various expert opinions based on family problems. Therefore, family counseling plays a very important role in helping to solve family problems in finding and creating harmonious and balanced psychological conditions so that families become harmonious and happy and families can carry out their functions properly.