PERAN KONSELING GESTALT DALAM MENINGKATKAN SELF AWARNESS BAGI MANTAN PEMAKAI NARKOBA DI LEMBAGA PEMASYARAKATAN KELAS II A CURUP BENGKULU

Abstract

With the increase in drug cases, which are a serious danger to the community, even BNN data in 2021 amounted to 3.66 million people, an increase of 1.95% from 1.8% in 2019, meaning an increase of 0.15%. For Bengkulu province in December 2020 there were 1,055 people consisting of 829 dealers and 226 narcotics users. in the first semester of 2021 at the Class II A Curup Prison there were 228 people who were users and were serving their sentences. The problems of former drug users are anxiety after being released, because of past traumatic experiences, because of guilt and regret using drugs, and thinking about rejection and labeling of society after being released. This study aims to determine gestalt counseling in increasing self-awareness of former drug users in the Class II A Curup Prison. The method uses descriptive qualitative data with a deep interview (in-dept interviews) with gestalt counseling, observations that include gestalt counseling and data documentation. It takes five former users who will get parole or have served 2/3 of their sentence (minimum security). The results of the study that gestalt counseling is effective in growing self-awareness of former drug users, because the client is directed to the problems that occur in the present, without getting involved with previous traumatic experiences and pessimistic about the future.