Post-Trauma Counselling through Group Play Therapy: Traditional Games as a Basis for Model Development

摘要

This research is intended to develop a model of post-trauma counselling through group games that are based on traditional games as an alternative to help children with traumatic experiences. This research adopted research and development approaches. In the pilot study, literary research and needs assessment was carried out and used as the basis for hypothetical model development. Content validation and empirical validation were administered on which the revision of the hypothetical model. The operational model was also tested to find out the efficacy of the model as a basis for final model development. Types and sources of anxiety were identified from the need assessment. The results showed the kinds of games, objectives, characteristics, time duration, participants involved, processes, and tools used. Target subjects of the model efficacy were students of MI and MTS (Islamic Elementary and Junior High School) Matla'ul Ulum in Tasikmalaya. The intervention material of the model's efficacy testing was a counselling unit based on post-trauma counselling through group-game therapy, which was based on traditional games. The research results showed that this model was proved to have significantly decreased the anxiety of children with traumatic experiences in Tasikmalaya. Thus, this model is recommended to be disseminated.