KONSELING BAGI ANAK BERBAKAT AKADEMIK

Counseling for the Academically Gifted Children. The number of academically gifted children is quite high distributed in all areas. The academically gifted children will be benefecial for themselves and other people, if they can develop optimally. There are many academically gifted children who are succesful in their life; however we can find some who are in difficulty. They need counseling services. There are some important issues in counseling, especially for the academically gifted children, such as: (1) divergent thinker, (2) excitability, (3) sensitivity, (4) perceptiveness, (5) entelechy. (6) self-concept, (7) counseling with parents, and (8) underachievement. To help them face important issues, socialpersonal counseling, academic counseling, and career counseling are necessary. These three counseling approaches can be conducted simultaneously, depending on their needs. The models and strategies of counseling for the academically gifted children are therapeutic, preventive, and developmental models. The choice of models is strongely determined by the need of effective counseling, in order to achieve the optimal result. To establish the effective counseling, it is necessary that counseling services should be conducted by professional counselors. Keywords: counseling, academically gifted childre

MODEL BIMBINGAN PERKEMBANGAN UNTUK MENINGKATKAN KECAKAPAN SOSIAL-PRIBADI ANAK BERBAKAT AKADEMIK

A Development Guidance Model to Improve Academically Gifted Children’s Social-Personal Skills. This study intended to investigate the effectiveness of personal-social guidance programs for Academically Gifted Students (AGS). This study was a research and development study. The research subjects were 80 senior high students. The data were collected using an inventory and rating scales. The quantitative data were analyzed by the the descriptive and inferential statistical techniques, i.e. percentile, t-test and ANOVA, and the qualitative data by the descriptive technique. The results show that (1) the profile of personal-social skills among the AGS is very good, (2) the materials and implementation of the Personal-Social Guidance Program Guide on the basis of the Development Model is an appropriate alternative model that can increase the AGS’s personal-social skills, (3) the Personal-Social Guidance Program Guide on the basis of the Developmental Model is empirically proven to be able to increase the AGS’s personal-social skills. Keywords: development guidance model, social-personal guidance, academically gifted student