<p class="AbstrakAGC">Blind people are people with disabilities due to the dysfunction of the sense of vision, this condition triggers the birth of various mental disorders. This qualitative study tries to examine the mental problems of blind vision disorders in the Sahabat Mata Semarang Community and the solutions the management is trying to overcome. The results of the study show that mental disorders with visual impairments include difficulties in adapting to the environment, anxiety about the future of a career and soul mate, prolonged stress due to dependence on others and no economic independence, and do not yet have self-acceptance. One of the efforts undertaken by the management of this community is to build peer social support, namely support provided by fellow blind people in the form of emotional support, appreciation support, structural support, information support, and real assistance. The various supports are built by holding regular recitals, monthly community meetings, and building good interpersonal relationships. Such peer social support, felt blind can provide alternative solutions and a variety of mental disorder problems they experience.</p>

<p class="AbstrakAGC">This paper was aimed to provide knowledge that Dzikir can be used as an alternative therapy in sufistic counseling. Sufis have the view that all the problems faced by all individuals come from an uneasy heart or mind, so the first process of giving assistance to be done is to organize the heart or mind. Dzikir as a therapy in sufistic counseling is interesting to be studied further by using a grounded theory in qualitative research method. The results show that dhikr therapy is one of the sufistic counseling techniques that can be used to heal an uneasy heart or mind. Dzikir will make the counselee closer to the creator, namely Allah. In addition, dhikr makes the counselee aware of the essence of himself as a creature of God so that the powers of the soul emerge that will help the counselee overcome problems at hand.</p>

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Psychological well-being (PWB) is synonymous with happiness which is important for every prisoner. PWB is important for prisoners considering prisoners have different lives and Prisoners are increasingly depressed by the label of villains from the community. This research aimed to determine the effectiveness of group counseling with the solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) approach to improve prisoners' pwb. This study used a quasi-experimental design with repeated measurements (pre-test, post-test, and follow-up). The research subjects were divided into two, namely 7 prisoners in the experimental group and 7 prisoners in the control group. Subjects were selected using purposive sampling technique based on inclusion criteria and PWB levels obtained from the psychological well-being scale. This study's results indicate that group counseling with the SFBT approach is proven to be effective in increasing PWB of Class II A prisoners in Pekalongan City during the pre-test vs post-test, and post-test vs follow-up. This study's results can be used as a consideration, reference, and alternative for counselors to use the SFBT approach in dealing with problems related to psychology, especially PWB.