The Effectivity of Humanistic Group Counselling in Improving the Psychological Well-Being of Foster Children at Orphanage

Abstract

This study aims to determine the effect of group counseling with a humanistic approach in
improving the psychological well-being of foster children at the A'isyiyah Sumberrejo
Orphanage, Bojonegoro Regency. The type of research used is pre-experimental research
with the One Group Pretest Posttest Design model. Research subjects were selected by
purposive sampling. The sample is 6 high school age foster children. The method of data
collection was carried out with a psychological well-being questionnaire. Data analysis
used the T test, namely the Paired Sample T Test with the help of the SPSS for Windows
version 26.00 program. The results showed that the hypothesis test showed a significance
value of 0.001 < 0.05, proving that there was a significant difference between the pretest
with an average score of 88.67 which increased to an average score of 106.83 in the
posttest. So it can be concluded that humanistic group counseling can help improve the
psychological well-being of foster children in orphanages by marked changes in attitudes,
understanding and positive behavior of foster children.