Peningkatan Kemampuan Konseling Virtual Dengan Metode Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) Di Pondok Pesantren Annida

The use of information technology is increasingly showing a significant increase, namely in thedevelopment aspect and also in the end-user aspect. This increase also has an impact on the educationsector, namely counseling services. Counseling services are a form of activity to provide assistance tosomeone to solve problems. Counselors as people who play a role in providing assistance must be able toadapt to information technology. Thus, this paper provides an explanation of how counselors conductvirtual counseling using the Asset-Basd Community Development method. The ABCD method is a methodthat focuses on assets, which refers to students, gadgets and buildings. In the ABCD method, the stagescarried out include Discovery (find), Dream (Dream), Design (Procedure), Define (Consolidation of goals),and Destiny (Self Determination). The final result shows that almost all students who have done virtualcounseling simulations can do the same as face-to-face counseling.