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Group guidance and group counseling are two types of counseling services that have been applied for decades at various schools in Indonesia. Both services have been proven to achieve the expected goals such as increasing the courage to speak in public, the courage to respond to people's opinions, the courage to express their experiences, the courage to express new ideas and ideas, ability to tolerate right, and the development of interests and talents. However, the problem then arises when referring to the English terms needed when using search engines in cyberspace or books about groups in international counseling. Then what concept question arises that can be used as a reference that shows the concept of group guidance and group counseling by Prayitno.

Self-adjustment is the individual's ability to deal with changes in the environment and in it there is an effort to achieve a harmonious relationship between environmental demands and the demands that exist within the individual. Self-adjustment is influenced by peer environmental factors. This study aims to look at the description of students 'self-adjustment, peer social support, and to examine the relationship between peer social support and students' adjustment. The study population was students of SMP Negeri 7 Bukittinggi, amounting to 440 people, with a sample of 210 students, selected by stratified random sampling. The results of this study indicate: (1) peer social support is in the high category, (2) adjustment is in the high category, (3) there is a relationship the positive significant between peer social support with adjustment.

Students who are motivated will prepare before attending college, in college and post-college activities. Phenomena in the field students lack motivation, see there are still students who arrive late, do not read the lecture material, playing phone while in college, and rarely repeat lecture material at home. This study revealed a motivation to lectures. Type a descriptive correlational study with findings of high student motivation, activities and lectures both significant relationship between motivation and lectures.