Mental Health Recovery in SDGs Through the Empowering Family Communication in Palmerah Community Jakarta

Abstract

This study analyzes the mental health recoveries among adolescents, such as addiction to internet consumption through social media, websites, games, YouTube, Netflix, and live streaming. Action research was carried out on communities in two villages involving 22 families as participants, and each family has one to four children. Ethnography was also used to collect data from observations, interviews, and researchers who are active in the community for three months. The first step is to identify the problem and then carry out an extension and mentoring program. Researchers applied a program to improve interaction and communication patterns in families, both dyadic and group. The empowering families and community are conducted through day-to-day coaching to the adolescents to improve communication patterns and relationships between family members, increasing knowledge about communication technology's function, and strengthening cultural ties face-to-face and online. The results showed that mental health recovery loosened dependence on online games and the duration of social media chats. The community shows the improvement of interaction and relationship patterns in family communication. Meanwhile, dimensions such as knowledge about the role of communication technology and cultural ties in the community are considered necessary by the community to improve adolescents' mental health.