The improving the psychological well-being through forgiveness cyber-counselling approach among pandemic covid-19 community

Abstract

Public health status during the Covid-19 pandemic is quite concerning, while mental health services such as counseling require face-to-face meetings for 1-2 hours per session are risky to practices.  Therefore cyber-therapy techniques are one of the psychological intervention approaches during the Covid-19 pandemic. The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of the forgiveness cyber-counseling approach to improve community psychological well-being during the Covid-19 pandemic. The study used a quasi-experimental design. The psychological well-being level was measured during pre-test, post-test, and follow-up. A total of five-person to be subject in this study. Subjects were selected using the purposive sampling technique based on inclusion criteria such as adolescents who were impacted by the covid-19 pandemic, have low psychological well-being were obtained by the Psychological Well-Being Scale, and signed a commitment to participate in the study. The results of this study indicate that the forgiveness of cyber-counseling to be effective in increasing the subject's psychological well-being. Finally, the study’s result recommended for counselors use the forgiveness cyber-counseling approach in dealing with public mental health problems during the Covid-19 pandemic.