This research was motivated that the teacher of guidance and counseling
minimally applied the individual counseling technique in conducting counseling to the
learners. The teacher of guidance and counseling mostly used technique of giving
advice only. Beside that, learners did not trust the teacher guidance and counseling to
reveal all their problems because the teacher was less friendly in welcoming the
learners. The formulation of the problem in this research was how the perception of
learners about the mastery of individual counseling techniques applied by guidance and
counseling teachers in SMP N 2 Bayang. The limitations of the problem of this study is
the perception of learners about the mastery of welcoming techniques, empathy
techniques, open questions techniques employed by teachers guidance and counseling in
individual counseling in SMP N 2 Bayang. This study aims to determine the perceptions
of learners about the mastery of welcoming techniques, empathy techniques, open
questions technique used by teachers guidance and counseling in individual counseling
in SMP N 2 Bayang.
This research method was descriptive quantitative by using percentage formula
and the instrument was questionnaire. The technique is taking the sample was
Purpossive Sampling. The results revealed that the perception of learners about the
mastery of welcoming student techniques by teachers guidance and counseling in SMP
N 2 Bayang was classified as less well. The perception of learners about mastery of
empathy techniques to learners by teacher guidance and counseling at SMP N 2 Bayang
was classified quite well. The student's perception about mastery of open questioning
technique to learners by teacher guidance and counseling at SMP N 2 Bayang was
classified as less good.
Keywords: Perception, Individual Counseling Technique, Counseling Guidance
Teacher