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Bullying is still being a phenomenon in Indonesia. Victims of bullying is not just passive actors in bullying situations. In 2021 the data of Junior High School in Cirebon City, bullying cases reached to 83 cases. One of the efforts to increase self-efficacy for victims of bullying is by providing counseling services using counseling group strategies. The purpose of this research is to determine the effect of counseling group towards self-efficacy at victim bullying students. This research used analytical method, quasi experimental design with pretest and posttest group design. The sample of this research was 42 victim bullying students who have been recorded in the counseling section and meet the inclusion criteria. The data collecting of this research was using questionnaires and analyzed with independent sample t tests and paired tests. The results of this research showed that the characteristics of students who were victims of bullying were mostly women (57.1%) with an average age of 13.86 years. The average self-efficacy before the intervention was 27.9 points and after the intervention was 38.3 points. There is a correlation between gender characteristics and self-efficacy for victim bullying students, but there is no difference in age with self-efficacy for victim bullying students. There is an effect of counseling group towards self-efficacy at victim bullying students of Junior High School in Cirebon City with p value of 0.000. The school is expected to be able to take an action to prevent bullying case with health education providers and increase self-efficiency at victim bullying students using counseling group.