Psychoeducation and Counseling on Children’s Readiness for Entering Primary School at TK ABA UMP Bantul

Abstract

The purpose of this community service is to help evaluate and
provide feedback related to children's preparation for entering
school. The participants of this service activity are the parents of
students at TK Unggulan Mardi Putra Bantul. The design used is a
one-group pretest-posttest. Data collection was conducted using a
school readiness knowledge test as well as observation and
interviews. The interventions provided were psychoeducation and
counseling, each conducted in one session. The results of the
Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test showed a coefficient value between the
pretest and posttest of Z = 2.145 and p = 0.032 (p < 0.05), with the
mean score before the training being 6.19 and after the training
being 6.88, with an average difference of 0.69, indicating a
difference in understanding before and after the intervention.
During the counseling process, an increased understanding of the
current condition of the child and how to prepare the child for
entering elementary school according to each parent's concerns
was observed. It can be concluded that psychoeducation and
counseling improved parents' understanding of their children's
readiness to enter school.

Keyword: School readiness, psychoeducation, counseling