Media in Community Guidance Services

Abstract

—Social media guidance services are a good equipment in the form of software or hardware that have a function as a tool in activity of guidance services. Community guidance media can also be interpreted as everything that is used to channel messages or information from community counselors to correctional clients who can stimulate thoughts, feelings, attention, and interests so that correctional clients will experience changes in behavior, attitudes and actions towards a better direction. Permendiknas (2008) formulates standard competency of counselor into four supervisor competencies, namely (1) Pedagogic Competencies, (2) Personality Competencies, (3) Social Competencies, and (4) Professional Competencies. Through community guidance services, community counselors help correctional clients achieve their developmental tasks in the context of the independence process, it will become more optimal if supported by executors who have professionalism standards in their fields as well as the support of the prevailing management system and the use of science and technology, so that guidance activities become more effective. This type of research is descriptive based on a qualitative approach using inter-view techniques, literature study and direct observation. The research instrument grid is quoted from the classification of social guidance media consisting of indicators (1) Graphic Media, Print Material, & Still Images, (2) Silent Projection Media, (3) Media Audio, (4) Film Media, (5) Multimedia, (6) Media Objects, and (7) Interactive Media.