The Use of Classical Guidance to Increase High School Students' Understanding About Drug Abuse

This research aimed to increase understanding about drug abuse through classical guidance in class XI High School students in Sewon Bantul 1 during the 2018/2019 academic year. A guidance and counseling action research approach was employed with two cycles. This consisted of three meetings for each cycle, and media such as pamphlets and videos were used. Classical guidance was performed following operational guidelines on guidance and counseling. 21 participants were involved in this study and they were recruited by purposive sampling. The validity of the test instrument was analysed using the Product Moment formula and the Cronbach Alpha formula was used to assess its reliability. The data were analysed using a t-test to compare participants’ understanding before and after treatment. The results showed that before classical guidance, the average value of understanding about drug abuse was 10.190% and this value increased to 16.762% after the second cycle of action, which represented an average increase of 6.572 points. Classical guidance that was carried out six times made a highly positive impact on students. Therefore, it can be concluded that classical guidance can be used as prevention by providing students with information about the dangers of drugs. Keywords: dangers of drug abuse, classical guidance, guidance and counseling, drug abuse, high school student