Group Counseling to Increase Adversity Quotient

Abstract

Successes and failures are the real phenomena in human life. As stated by Frankl (2006: xvi) life is suffering, to survive in finding the meaning of life in suffering. As a simple illustration when feeling the comfort air and want to feel it continue without understanding that the comfort of the air is just a momentary phenomenon and will be replaced with another condition. Unpleasant sensation of the body and mental responded as something permanent and raised the excessive aversion against a potential form of suffering and failures. Daniel Goleman (1997: 44) explained why do many people have high IQ failed, while many others have medium IQ can be developed rapidly, many factors can affect the success and failure of a person in facing problems. Intelligence is not accompanied by good management of the emotional intelligence will not produce the success of one's life, especially in achieving successes and happiness. The ability to manage the minimum emotions can deliver somebody to survive in overcoming difficulties, facing the challenge or able to respond to the difficulties faced well by Stoltz (2004) introduced as adversity, while the measurement results of the survive ability and overcoming the difficulty of the problems faced called Adversity Quotient (AQ) by overcoming the difficulties of somebody to be happy. By group counseling, individual were taught to be able to overcome the problems experienced. Group counseling is a dynamic interpersonal process focused on conscious thought and behavior (Wibowo 2005: 32). The Affirmation implicitly is the curative characteristic created and guided in a small group through the sharing of personal concern by expressing the difficulties and concerns of personal to other members and the counselor