RANCANGAN SOLUTION-FOCUSED BRIEF COUNSELING (SFBC) UNTUK MEREDUKSI HOMESICKNESS REMAJA DI BOARDING SCHOOL

Homesickness is adolescence psychological reaction toward separation with the environment of home caused by thought full of home, family, and friends from his ground. It could bother adolescence to focus on optimizing self-development in boarding school. This research was conducted to explore symptoms of homesickness the adolescence showed, personal factors, and to result Solution-Focused Brief Counseling Design as the curative way in reducing adolescence homesickness. This research used qualitative approach. To build counselling service design, need assessment was conducted to three participants of research selected by purposive sampling technique in Daar el-Qolam Islamic Boarding School 2020/2021 Academic Year. Findings revealed symptoms indicating adolescence homesickness, characterized by obsessional thought about home, negative thought about new environment, lack of initiative, withdrawal, unstable emotion, and physical complaints. Personal factor of homesickness found in research was the adolescence perspective about difficult situation in boarding school. SFBC Design was arranged to help students focus on solution and self-development, so that homesickness could not be the serious problem bothering students’ improvement