The Impact of the Use of Group Counseling Motivational Interviewing as a Strength-Based Approach to Reduce Students’ Disruptive Classroom Behaviors

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to determine the effectiveness of group counseling motivational interviewing as a strength based approach to reduce disruptive classroom behaviors of students. The research method is an experiment using the design of one group pre-test and post-test by involving 7 students of MTS An-Nur Tangkit Muaro Jambi who had hight disruptive classroom behaviors. The data collection used was disruptive classroom behaviors scale. The results of this research indicate the students' disruptive classroom behaviors before being given group counseling motivational interviewing as a strength based approach, average disruptive classroom behaviors of 81.57 (SD = .976), then decline after group counseling was 63.57 (SD = 3.309). Paired sample ttest results showed that motivational interviewing as a strength based approach was effective to reduce disruptive classroom behaviors of junior high school students (t =12.579 p < 0.01). This research confirms that group counseling motivational interviewing as a strength based approach can be applied to reduce disruptive classroom behaviors of students and asserts that group counseling motivational interviewing as a strength based approach has an implication toward the optimization of counselors' roles and professionalism in the utilization of motivational interviewing as a strength based approach for the development of positive behaviors.