The Innovative Model of Counsellors Collaboration in Alleviating the Students’Character Problem

The long term goal of this research was to overcome the problem of the character of students
through innovative models of collaboration services counselor. While the target in particular
was to get counseling services to strengthen collaboration counselor to reduce the burden of
student character. Short-term goal in the second year was to get the validation of the model.
The method used was action research. This research was done in high school, located in Deli
Serdang, North Sumatra, Indonesia. Samples were taken by using purposive sampling. Data
was collected using questionnaires, observations, and interviews, and document analysis. Thus,
the data analysis was done descriptively. Based on the results, it has been found that
collaboration in the application of instruments and understanding of the test report was received
by 100 percent. In addition, counselors’ collaborative model through consulting services found
acceptable by 90 percent. The study also found that consolidation service providing received as
much as 80 percent. The collaboration peer counselors in group discussions and cooperate with
chatting were received up to 87 and 80 percent of these, respectively. In addition, the innovated
models could strengthen the ability of counselors to alleviate students’ problems. Students’
character problem was also found to be reduced from 86 to 29 percent. The results concluded
that the innovated model was applicable for use in reducing the problems of students’ character.