Implementation of Gestalt Therapy in Counseling to Overcome Parental Divorce Trauma in Adolescents

Abstract

Families have problems that must be faced sometimes can be resolved but some cannot be resolved that can result in divorce. Divorce hurts adolescents in the form of trauma. The feeling of trauma is an unresolved problem of the past. The trauma of divorce victims creates physiological, psychological and relational disorders. This is a literature review research. Data collection uses documentation techniques by collecting various kinds of literature and articles pertaining. Literature and articles included in this research were relevant with gestalt therapy in the context of adolescent with parental divorce trauma. The results indicate that gestalt therapy is effective to help adolescents overcome their trauma. Stages of gestalt therapy for traumatized teenage victims of divorce include: 1) Rebuilding trauma boundaries. Encourage the counselee to establish self-control and a sense of security here and now; 2) Building self-function, counselee awareness, and relaxation; 3) Bring back the trauma situation and review the place and time of occurrence; 4) Overcome negative counselee emotions with an empty chair; 5) Build intrapersonal relationships with family, friends and the wider environment; 6) Reconstruct the counselee's basic beliefs and provide beliefs, positive thoughts and help find the counselee's expectations.

Application of Assertive Training to Improve Self-esteem of Adolescent

“…The category of research journals as data sources, among others, was reviewed from the year of publication of the journal, sample size, control and experimental groups, type of treatment, and length of treatment [12]. Furthermore, the researcher himself is an instrument in this study (human instrument).…”

Penerapan terapi gestalt pada remaja perempuan yang tinggal di panti asuhan dengan childhood trauma

“…Ali et.al (2020) menunjukkan efektivitas terapi gestalt dalam menurunkan gejala stres, kecemasan dan depresi pada perempuan usia dewasa awal yang mengalami pengalaman traumatik akibat perang. Romadhon et al (2020)juga membuktikan efektivitas terapi gestalt dalam konseling dengan remaja yang mengalami trauma pada perceraian orang tua, hasil penelitian mengungkapkan bahwa terapi gestalt dengan teknik empty chair membantu subjek dalam mengatasi emosi negatif dari trauma yang dirasakan dahulu, sehingga dapat kembali berfungsi membangun hubungan interpersonal dengan keluarga maupun dengan kelompok sebaya. Penemuan ini sejalan dengan penjelasan dari Saliha (2018) bahwa terapi gestalt dapat berfungsi dengan baik karena terapi gestalt memungkinkan anak memperoleh kesadaran untuk memulihkan kondisi psikologis akibat trauma serta mencegah terjadinya trauma akut.…”

“…Melalui konseling gestalt dengan teknik empty chair subjek diajarkan untuk mampu berempati, mampu memahami konflik dalam dirinya dan menyelesaikannya (Dyastuti, 2012). Hal ini didukung dengan penelitian dari Romadhon et al (2020) yang menunjukkan jika teknik empty chair dalam terapi gestalt dapat membantu seorang remaja melalui pengalaman trauma yang dirasakan.…”