Gifted students tend to have too perfectionistic social skills, want others to be in accordance with the desired logic, comfortable interacting with students with homogeneous characteristics. This tendency can be modified by school counselors through the integration of the values of Saprahan local wisdom into guidance and counseling services. The values contained in Saprahan are used as the formation of students' empathy skills. Thus, gifted students have concern for other colleagues, can interact well with students of various characters, accept the shortcomings of other friends, embrace and help other friends, be polite in communicating, and not demean other friends.

The purpose of this study was to train students' critical thinking skills in the Junior High School Physical Education subject in Pontianak City. The product research and development model that forms the basis of this research is the Dick Carey instructional design model. The population in this study is students in the Physical Education and Health Subject at Junior High School in Pontianak City. The researcher's sampling technique to be used is total sampling. The data collection technique used is observation technique. The technique used to analyze the data in this study is descriptive qualitative. Based on the results of the first trial data recapitulation, the key score on the guidelines for the Game Performance Assessment Instrument (GPAI) Test/Basketball Game Performance obtained at this early stage obtained an average of 86 actions for each indicator, which means that effective performances often appear. This category means that students' critical thinking skills are quite good in terms of students' decisions in basketball playing material. In order to optimize students' critical thinking skills, interaction between educators and students is needed to reflect the behavior (effect) of teaching and learning under certain conditions. in the trial phase 2, the average action of each indicator has changed, based on the key score table, which means that effective performance always appears. This category means that students' critical thinking skills are optimal in terms of student support in basketball playing material. Based on the product developed through expert testing and field testing, the Guide to training critical thinking in the Physical Education subject for Junior High School Students (SMP) in Pontianak City is suitable for Physical Education learning.

This discussion based on the reality of adolescents behavior which generally contradicts the prevailing values in the norms and practices of the community in Pontianak region, West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Most adolescents did not consider their self-identity and insufficient psychological performance. Pontianak adolescents, indicating their existence and independent from their obligations. In the humanistic existential view emphasizes self-awareness, meaning and purpose of life and responsible freedom. We tried to internalizes the indigenous values of Saprahan including the values of openness (Seanak Sekemanakan), the value of politeness, care (Senaseb Sepenanggungan), the value of togetherness (Seadat Sepusaka, Sepucuk Setali Darah) as a counseling approach based on the indigenous culture of the Pontianak-Malay community to increase awareness of self-identity of adolescents. Cultural values in counseling approach contains self-awareness of students to understand and find the meaning of life according to the moral messages in the indigenous Saprahan values, because these values are a representation of the moral and cultured youth identity.

Tujuan penelitian yaitu menghasilkan panduan solution focus brief counseling (SFBC) untuk meningkatkan kemampuan kerja sama mahasiswa bimbingan dan konseling. Fokus  masalah dalam penelitian ini adalah meningkatkan kemampuan kerjasama mahasiswa IKIP-PGRI Pontianak. Pendekatan menggunakan Penelitian Tindakan Kelas (PTK) melalui dua siklus. Penilaian aspek kerjasama mahasiswa dalam penerapan panduan SFBC untuk meningkatkan kemampuan kerjasama mahasiswa. Penilaian aspek kerjasama mahasiswa dalam dalam penerapan panduan SFBC menggunakan pedoman observasi adapun indikator mencangkup komunikasi, koordinasi, kontribusi, toleransi, tanggung jawab, dan motivasi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa panduan SFBC dapat meningkatkan keterampilan kerjasama mahasiswa. Adapun perolehan indikator kerjasama pada setiap siklus tergolong “Baik” dan “Sangat Baik”, untuk perolehan rerata setiap siklus. Panduan SFBC untuk meningkatkan kemampuan kerjasama mahasiswa, yang terdiri dari: Rasional, tujuan pelaksanaan, pelaksanaan, teknik-teknik terapi SFBC, evaluasi, dan tindak lanjut. Setelah penerapan panduan SFBC maka dapat disimpulkan bahwa panduan SFBC dapat digunakan untuk meningkatkan kemampuan kerjasama mahasiswa.

Although group guidance is believed to be an effective and efficient service to facilitate the development of positive aspects and prevention of negative aspects of students, the frequency of its use for students is not optimal. This study aims to analyze student motivation to follow group guidance and differences in their motivation based on gender and ethnicity. The study used a comparative descriptive method. A total of 690 samples were involved in write-paper-and-pencil questionnaires, namely the students' motivation scale to attend group guidance, which was designed based on the Likert Scale model. We analyzed data using descriptive statistics and different test analysis using independent samples t-test and Bayesian method by applying JASP software. Analysis results showed that most students have the prime motivation to follow group guidance and there are significant differences in student motivation to follow group guidance based on gender, but in terms of ethnicity did not show any significant differences. School counselor can implement the findings of this study in determining group members in group guidance services.