Dominikus David Biondi Situmorang

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• Master of Education in Guidance & Counseling/Master of Science in Educational Psychology
• Lecturer at Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia

Objective Thesis writing is considered a difficult task for many Indonesian students, often accompanied by anxiety, stress, depression, and panic. Students who experience academic anxiety will experience maladaptive cognitive, affective, psychological, and behavioral conditions. Currently, mental health counselors/psychologists/psychiatrists/therap...

The premise of this study, utilizing content analysis and descriptive qualitative designs, posited that teachers' comprehension of 21st-century/4Cs skills' could define the caliber of educational materials in higher education institutions. The study aimed to ascertain how 21st-century skills were incorporated in teachers' term evaluations and instr...

The Pancasila Student Profile Strengthening Project/Projek Penguatan Profil Pelajar Pancasila (P5), initiated by the Indonesian government, aims to cultivate an independent curriculum in pioneer schools, presenting a challenge in selecting the most appropriate theme from the available seven: Nurture Their Spirit and Body (NS), Local Wisdom (LW), En...

There are significant differences between the methods used in Western and Eastern culture to discuss sex. Any topic related to sex in Eastern culture, specifically Indonesia, is often considered taboo compared to Western culture. This is due to the strong cultural and religious values prevalent in Eastern societies, making discussions about sex fee...

Career adaptability is a factor that determines the success of undergraduate students from the provinces of Papua and West Papua in completing their education. Therefore, this research aims to assess the influence of perceived social support from parents, friends, and lecturers on career adaptability as mediated by core self-evaluation in undergrad...

Undergraduate students from Papua region are confronted with challenges that may hinder their academic career. Developing career adaptability has become a crucial factor in addressing such challenges effectively. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine how core self-evaluation (CSE) moderates the relationship between perceived parental...

Dear editor, Through this article, I would like to respond to the last paper that discusses ‘Development and psychometric evaluation of the sexual and reproductive health needs of incarcerated women scale: a methodological study’.¹ Discussions related to this topic are also becoming a hot topic in the sex education and public health field. If we ex...

This study aims to analyze the mathematical creative thinking ability of grade VIII students at a State Junior High School in Riau, Indonesia, in terms of self-regulated learning. A qualitative design was employed, utilizing descriptive methods through a case study approach, and the participants included 28 students of grade VIII C. To ensure data...

This study aimed to develop a learning agility measuring instrument based on De Meuse's theory (2015) with a sample of Government Employees from the National Police of the Indonesian Republic and members of Polda Metro Jaya (N=60). The development of an Indonesian version of the learning agility measuring tool is important to adapt the construct ac...

In this article, the author explains more about the other benefits that people can enjoy when listening to music in the Metaverse, significantly boosting immunity and maintaining mental health.

Disaster education remains crucial in building resilient communities, especially in natural disaster-prone areas. An essential element of the educational strategy in this paper involves local wisdom integration into teaching and learning processes. As such, the 'Tunjuk Ajar Melayu Riau' (TAMR) offers valuable insights with its profound knowledge of...

Dear editor, Recently there was an article discussing the existence of the Metaverse in the post-COVID-19 era,¹ but unfortunately it has not definitively discussed its impact on education. The advancement of technology, particularly Artificial Intelligence (AI), has brought sweeping changes to many areas of our lives.² One of the areas that technol...

Dear editor, Through this article, we would like to respond to the last piece that discusses ‘ASEAN public health: an urgent call for regional collaboration’.¹ Discussions related to this topic are also becoming a hot topic in the social field, especially in Indonesia. Basically, this spirit of collaboration has been based on several philosophies t...

Dear editor, We would like to provide a response to the latest article about esports, gambling and academic intervention,¹ which, on the other hand, can cause procrastination. Procrastination is a common phenomenon that affects many people, especially students.² Although it is often perceived as a negative trait, some argue that procrastination can...

In response to an article on the topic of administering vaccines to children in the Philippines.¹ The topic of this vaccine has also been discussed in Indonesia,² but now we will discuss it related to pregnancy. The controversy surrounding the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine is whether to believe in it or be forced by the government to...

Here discussed is the relevance of non-pharmacological therapy, especially cooking therapy, in supporting the mental health recovery of adolescent disaster victims, especially those affected by the natural eruption of Mount Merapi in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

This study aims to test the effectiveness of Holland career counseling to improve the career maturity of students at the Faith-Based Educational School in Pamekasan. The study design used was an experiment involving as many as 7 students was selected by purposive random sampling. Instruments used in this study were Career Maturity Inventory (CMI)-F...

The competency test results for state high school teachers who served in Rokan Hilir Regency only passed 42 percent of the total teachers. This indicates that teachers’ performance is still poor. Internal and external factors both influence teachers’ performance. The internal factor is emotional intelligence, which is the ability to recognize one's...

The authors in this article would like to invite related parties to carry out updates in the world of education, that the existence of ChatGPT can provide new enthusiasm for all of us to improve in a better direction.

A globalized world demands every country's citizen to proceed to build a creative economy to adapt to the rapid changes that follow. Therefore, promoting social and financial education should be engaged with children early. However, a learning model available to awaken children's socio-financial capabilities is vividly rare, if not none. Furthermor...

Hospitalization affects the emotional, psychological, and social well-being of schizophrenic patients. The process can produce experiences of both flourishing and languishing. This study aims to identify and describe such experiences of schizophrenic patients during hospitalization. A phenomenological qualitative method was employed with six schizo...

In this article, the author describes the positive impacts of happiness-sharing activities, especially regarding achievement. These activities are essential in maintaining and improving mental health. In addition, the author inspires so that many people can do positive things, infect many people and create a more positive world.

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Objective: Pastoral care in mental health interventions to prevent the spread of COVID-19 (such as lockdowns) put people's mental health and emotional well-being at jeopardy, especially today's young people. Because of their extensive use of screen-mediated solitary social media mixed with inadequate face-to-face interpersonal skills, they are more...

The phenomenon of the Industrial Revolution 4.0 currently emphasizes rapid technological advances. There is a need for innovation in technology development to package the current learning process more effectively, one of which is the development of learning media which is an important part of the learning process and is certainly directed at meanin...

Disaster risk reduction is a significant focus on sustainable development. One way to reduce disaster risk is through disaster education. Through disaster education, disaster knowledge and disaster mitigation knowledge will be obtained. This research is a preliminary study of didactic transposition in disaster education. The method used in this stu...

Digital technology has become an essential part of people's lives, and the Internet's innovation made it easier for humans to carry out activities. This systematic review aims to examine parenting with a specific internet-based intervention designed to help them gain information about child-rearing. Specifically, it analyses: 1) how the internet-ba...

This study examined the Item Response Theory (IRT) method with statistical analysis to determine Differential Item Functioning (DIF) between men and women on the Ways of Coping Checklist (WOCC) Instruments revised by Vitaliano, Russo, Carr, Mauiro, and Becker (1985). Furthermore, it utilized primary data from 722 respondents with educational backgr...

This study aims to determine the role of career decision self-efficacy (CDSE) as a mediator of the relationship between peer support and career adaptability among college students. Furthermore, students are in a realistic period of career development, but in reality, the level of adaptability is still low because the knowledge and career guidance i...

Dear Editor, In a recently published correspondence in the Journal of Public Health, ‘Wanted: quality telehealth for all’ by Ibita¹, this topic is very interesting if it is discussed in terms of education that should be able to adapt to this, especially if it is related to the situation that is happening in our country. In Indonesia, the implementa...

This study attempts to evaluate the Indonesian adaptation of the DASS-21, a scale adapted from Peter F. and Sydney H. Lovibond 1995 to assess levels of stress, anxiety, and depression. Multistage random sampling taking from 1478 Indonesian. Additionally, we use The Rasch measurement model to examine psychometric properties of DASS-21. The results i...

Dear editor, In response to the latest article on the topic of augmented reality (AR)¹ and metaverse,² a good understanding of the field of technology must be instilled from an early age, so that it can provide provisions for children to compete with the rapid development of technology. Especially in the COVID-19 era that has an impact on children’...

In this article, the author describes the challenges and opportunities of metaverse's presence in the world for online mental health services. Aside from that, the author provides insight that metaverse can become a new place that is more comfortable and enjoyable for everyone who can relish the online mental health meetings with a new atmosphere a...

Objective The purpose of this study is to find out more about the psycho-social-spiritual problems experienced by PLWHA Muslims and their efforts to overcome them by using religious coping. Methods This research is a qualitative research method with a telling-the-stories approach. This study describes assumptions about the physical/behavioral, soc...

In this article, the author provides several points of view regarding some of the advantages of the existence of Metaverse on music streaming, especially as a healing medicine for mental health. It is hoped that it can provide another viewpoint from the five key themes, or a series of criticisms that have been discussed in the previous article.

The purpose of this study is to provide references related to the model of lecturers' pedagogic competence development in higher education. Pedagogic competence is fundamental in education. This is because pedagogic competence is one of the important factors in teaching. Pedagogic competence relates to how a lecturer can provide teaching that is no...

This study aims to analyze the Psychological Well-Being among prospective counselors from the Faith-Based Educational Institution during the COVID-19 pandemic. The approach of this study was quantitative with a descriptive method. The Psychological Well-Being among prospective counselors is at a high classification level, namely 84%. The components...

Dear Editor, Based on the socio-economic effects that occurred in the research conducted by Akhter et al.,¹ this also happened in Indonesia. We will review it as follows. Many experts have done research on the structure of bank income.² Lepetit et al. examines the relationship between the structure of bank income and risk on banks in Europe and con...

Intensitas merupakan seberapa banyak atau seberapa sering melakukan kegiatan dalam satu waktu. Online game merupakan permainan dengan menggunakan jaringan, dimana interaksi antara satu orang dengan orang yang lainnya untuk mencapai tujuan, melaksanakan misi, dan meraih nilai tertinggi dalam dunia virtual. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah mendapatk...

‘Agere Contra’ is a term introduced by St. Ignatius. The term comes from the Latin, meaning ‘to act against’ or ‘to act otherwise.’ In more depth, what conventional traders do does not necessarily go against government regulations. But they do the opposite, because on the basis of a higher than all, namely life. They are willing to sacrifice for th...

Dear editor, In response to the latest article on the topic of ‘The mediating role of work–family conflicts in the association between work ability and depression among Egyptian civil workers’.¹ This discussion is very interesting to discuss further about the side-effects that may occur to people in the future, especially when they choose or determ...

This research aims to determine the burnout levels of male and female students on the three subscales of Exhaustion (EX), Cynicism (CY), and Professional Efficacy (PE) and their resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a non-experimental quantitative, descriptive, and cross-sectional research conducted on students of Riau University. The sn...

Prokrastinasi akademik adalah perilaku mahasiswa yang tidak sesuai dengan rencana dengan melakukan penundaan dalam penyelesaian tugas kuliah untuk melakukan kegiatan lain yang lebih menyenangkan, sehingga mengakibatkan keterlambatan dalam pengumpulan tugas. Salah satu faktor yang diduga dapat menimbulkan prokrastinasi akademik adalah intensitas ber...

In Indonesia, there is currently a hot discussion regarding chemtrails appearing in the skies in several cities. Many people attribute this to conspiracy theories, according to which these chemtrails cause the omicron-type of coronavirus disease 2019 (B.1.1.529). Through this paper, we hope that Indonesian citizens be able to think more positively...

Currently, Metaverse has become a hot topic of conversation everywhere. Therefore, this can also be an accurate solution to the mental health challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Hopefully in the future, mental health workers can make the best use of it.

This study explained the importance of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) approach in dealing with individuals to find solutions both after and during the occurrence of psychological anxiety, the application of SBFT can be done practically, effectively, and efficiently. This study uses comparative analysis, which refers to various relevant liter...

Toxic positivity is indicated by encouraging words spoken in difficult situations that force someone to feel good about themselves. It becomes a current issue around the Generation Z because of the realization that toxic positivity could have a negative impact on mental health and individual social relationships. This study aims to analyze the view...

In Indonesia, controversy about the COVID-19 vaccination is still going on, there is a group of people who believe in this vaccine, and another group chooses not to believe. There are those who support this as mandatory, but there are also those who think that this is optional. Hopefully through this letter, we can all respect the decisions of ever...

In this article, the author describes two ways that can be done during this coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis, namely through GUIDANCE and COUNSELING. The author freely translates that GUIDANCE as “God, You, and I Dance” and COUNSELING: as “Communicate yourself in God”. In the middle of the COVID-19 crisis, this article offers new insights...

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the development of blended-based counseling services to reduce anxiety in adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic. The important role of counselors in the formation of mental health through integrated counseling the implementation of face-to-face and online counseling allows the community to be more flexible...

The author suggests that mental health experts provide 'rapid counseling' as psychological help for individuals who need counseling in this COVID-19 outbreak, as one of the steps to be taken to get rid of this national and global crisis, in particular for patients with COVID-19.

I hope this article can be an input for all of us, especially Indonesia, so that the phenomenon of ‘Herd Stupidity’ can end soon and the ‘positivity rate’ will decrease. If we all carry out disciplined behavior starting with ourselves, surely all of these things will be handled properly.

Hopefully, this writing is an input to us all, particularly Indonesia, in order to stop the ‘herd stupidity’ phenomena soon by reducing ‘irrational beliefs’. If we all conduct ourselves with discipline, all of these problems will definitely be handled appropriately.

This article presents that the use of music like “A Prayer for Nation” during the COVID-19 outbreak is an alternative healing medicine helping people to reduce their loneliness, depression, stress, and anxiety. In a multicultural, pluralistic country like Indonesia, this song has the pastoral power to uplift, unite, and heal.

Objective Conventional psychotherapy with a lengthy and regular number of meetings is no longer relevant in the case of COVID-19, when persons with psychiatric problems, especially COVID-19 patients/clients, really require immediate psychological assistance. It is recognized as a “rapid test” in the field of body health to rapidly decide whether or...

Hopefully, through this article, mental health workers, such as counselors, psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses, doctors, religious leaders, and social workers, can consider music as a good alternative in the midst of this COVID-19 pandemic. It is hoped that mental health workers who are currently struggling to care for everyone's psychological he...

This case occurred in a 33-year-old man who has been smoking for 19 years. He had a pattern of consuming 14 cigarettes per day with 30 mg of nicotine intake and high tar levels. The level of tolerance for consumption of nicotine and tar per day is 10 to 15 mg. High cigarette consumption correlates with high nicotine consumption as well. Excessive n...

As a result of this writing, I encourage future academics to conduct further study on what sorts of music and movements are acceptable for women during birth, as this is a highly intriguing issue, especially in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak. Music and dance can also be used as an alternative to non-pharmacological treatments, so that enough pr...

In this paper, I report on/show that the important of “Rapid Counseling” for patients with COVID-19 during this pandemic. These matters are studied based on the latest theory and research results, which are related to the current situation, namely the COVID-19 outbreak.

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis has changed the situation in Indonesia, which was previously hit by issues of conflict that are ethnicity, religion, race and inter-group relations. It has now changed with various social and solidarity movements carried out by every level of society in various cities and provinces in Indonesia to figh...

This study used quasi-experimental design with repeated measures (pre-test, post-test, and follow-up). Based on the post-test and the follow-up comparison, active music therapy was effective in reducing academic anxiety after two weeks of the treatment. Active music therapy which are integrated in CBT group counseling not only can overcome individu...

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Career decision self-efficacy (CDSE), i.e., the ability to successfully make important career-related decisions, is influenced by perceived parenting styles, thinking styles, and gender. Thus, this non-experimental study examined the effects of these factors on the CDSE of 617 high school students in Jakarta, Indonesia. According to the measuring i...

Objectives Anxiety can cause someone to be counterproductive or experience psychological disorders, causing discomfort in social activities, less active participation in behavior. This study aims to prove the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) approach and the cognitive restructuring (CR) technique to reduce individual psychosocial...