The Handbook of Rational Emotive Behaviour Counseling to Reduce Senior High School Students’s Burnout

Abstract

The burnout’s phenomenon is experienced by many students on a full day school system. High School students who are on the task of adolescent development, often experience various conflicts and are vulnerable to experiencing stress. If prolonged will cause burnout. Burnout is a syndrome of physical and emotional exhaustion, feelings of depersonalization and a lack of respect for self-quality. Help efforts are needed to reduce burnout with cognitive-based counseling. One of the guidance and counseling media that can be used is a rational-emotive-behavior-based counseling package, which aims to enable individuals to change their beliefs to be rational. Disputing is one technique that can be used to identify and change the counselee s irrational beliefs that cause burnout. This counseling package includes stages with several techniques from Rational Emotive Behavior Counseling. This article discusses theoretical studies and the relationship between research variables with phenomena in the field, and not yet on research results.