DEVELOPMENT OF THE MENTAL HEALTH APPLICATIONS FOR ONLINE INDIVIDUAL COUNSELING TO REDUCE ADOLESCENTS’ STRESS
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https://doi.org/10.14456/nrru-rdi.2022.57Keywords:
Mental health application, Cognitive behavioral adjustment, Online individualized counseling programAbstract
Using applications as a tool to expand counseling channels may help alleviate mental health symptoms and improve the mental well-being of adolescents. This study’s research objectives were based on developing the mental health application for online individual counseling, and comparing stress scores before and after online individual counseling. Two groups totaling 15 respondents were selected by a purposive method, namely 5 experts and 10 voluntary experimental participants. The research instruments were an online individual counseling program, using a suitability assessment form for mental health applications, the Department of Mental Health SPST-20 stress scale, and an evaluation questionnaire with a mean content accuracy of 3.20. Data were collected by a group of experts to assess suitability, the experimental group measurements, and the single group research, before and after 5, 45-minute sessions. Data were analyzed using the descriptive statistics of percentage, mean, and the inferential statistical difference Z test. The study found that to improve mental health applications, the program of mental health assessments should display a menu of activities that counselors may consider as suitable, along with a service calendar, thinking corner, consulting room, diary, relaxation corner and a service agreement. The experimental group had lower stress levels after using online and individual counseling. Thus, mental health applications have features and characteristics that are truly in line with the demands for use in the world of contactless technology.
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