Experiential-Based Counseling: to Improve Adversity Intelligence Adolescent

Success and failure is a real phenomenon in human life, as well as in adolescents. In every life, it can not be separated from problems and difficulties. Adolescents today not a few who overcome the difficulties destructively, some of which are the involvement of adolescents in drug cases, suicide, tendency to avoid obligations, moody, blame others, and hate individuals who continue to struggle. Therefore, adolescents are expected to be able to overcome various difficulties they face effectively, because they are the forerunners of professional workers who will be the drivers of the nation's development progression. Adolescents need to have the ability to respond to difficulties positively, survive in a state of despair, not give up easily and can solve any difficulties called adversity intelligence. One effort to develop adversity intelligence is teenagers with experiential based counseling. Experiential based counseling is one of a series of activities that focuses on experience and reflected, then forms a new principle for adolescents that will be a guide to the creation of more positive new behaviors. The benefits of experiential based counseling make it possible to transfer learning in the real world. Experiential based counseling is expected to be able to build dimensions of adversity intelligence, namely control, origin & ownership, reach and endurance (CO2RE). The writing of this article aims to describe experiential based counseling as one of the effective efforts to improve adversity adolescent intelligence. The research method used is a literature study.