M. Ramli

East Java Modeling Techniques to Improve Student Meaning of Life

Indonesia as a diverse tribe country has a distinctive cultural value, including the cultures of Madura, Samin and Tengger in East Java. These cultural values form a system of meaning of life for the people of Madura, Samin and Tengger, including students with a Madurese, Samin or Tengger cultural background. Counseling with Madura culture modeling techniques can be an alternative in an effort to increase the meaning of life of students. This is due to the suitability of modeling techniques with the cultural values of Madura, Samin and Tengger which have significant others with great influence. Thus, modeling of significant others with the influence of magnitude on the cultivation of cultural values of Madura, Samin or Tengger becomes in line with efforts to increase the meaning of life of students based on the cultural value of Madura, Samin or Tengger.

Urgency cognitive-behavioral counseling based on local wisdom for junior high school counselor in East Java

The cultural encounters of counselors-counselees have great influence to the success of counseling services. Counseling services in Indonesia still use western theory, have not considered the value of eastern culture. One of the study of Indonesian culture, especially East Java contains uniqueness in presenting the process of counseling aid. East Java has seven ethnics namely Osing, Tengger, Madura, Java, Samin, Materaman, and Bawean. The study of the seven East Java ethnics will give birth to a new paradigm of eastern cultural counseling-local wisdom. The positive impact of counseling services cultural-based has strategic value: building internal and external counseling service imaging, facilitating counselors while serving counselees with culture diversity with appropriate change techniques, and Cognitive-Behavioral Counseling based on local wisdom becomes new counseling paradigms in Indonesia especially in East Java. CognitiveBehavioral Counseling framework is a form of counseling that incorporates the principles and procedures of Cognitive counseling and Behavioral counseling in an effort to help the counselee in achieving expected behavioral changes.