The Identification of Students’ Problems in Junior High School Using AUM Umum (General Problem-Revealing Instrument)

— The success of counseling and guidance services is mainly dependent on teachers' guidance and counseling skills in facilitating and helping students to solve their problems. They are very important in the counseling process, where the provision of guidance and counseling services should be appropriate to the students’ problems and needs. However, Guidance and Counseling teachers have difficulties in identifying students’ difficulties. In this paper, we present the most problem experienced by 100 junior high school students. They are the first year students of junior high school in Yogyakarta. We analyze the student problems using survey methods with a problem-based guidance and counseling tool, namely Alat Ungkap Masalah (AUM) Umum / General Problem-Revealing Instrument . Junior high school students are in the early phase of teenagers who find many big changes in themselves that can cause problems. The result of this research shows that there are three problems found. The most common problem is Personality (26%), Social Relationship (25%), and Physical Health (22%).