Motherhood as a School Psychological Counselor during Coronavirus Disease Outbreak

Abstract

<p style="text-align: justify;">The coronavirus disease (COVID-19), which affected the whole world and caused millions to be locked at their homes, brought many difficulties in domestic life. Especially, women are the leading group that has been affected the most negatively due to the workload during the days staying at home and experiencing the constraints of traditional roles. In this study, in which descriptive phenomenology analysis was used, the aim was to reveal how mothers working as psychological counselors in schools experienced motherhood during the days staying at home during the epidemic, and how their professional skills reflected on their role as mothers. In this study, in which the criterion sampling was used, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 15 mothers who are school psychological counselors and could not continue their work since schools shut down during the pandemic. The data were analyzed by Giorgi’s descriptive phenomenological method. Analysis results revealed six main themes that define the experiences of the participants: adaptation to the new order, parenting codes, introspection during the pandemic, distribution of parenting roles, professional reflections in motherhood, and complex motherhood experiences. It is believed that the results obtained from this study conducted with psychological counselor mothers will contribute to parenting practices and to the content of in service trainings for school psychological counselors.</p>

Reformasi pembelajaran era covid-19: Pembelajaran online berbasis masalah dalam meningkatkan kemampuan berpikir kreatif siswa SMP

“…Sebagaimana yang dilakukan Kardoyo et al (2020) menunjukkan bahwa penelitian yang dilakukan dengan model pembelajaran berbasis masalah yang diterapkan pada penelitian tindakan kelas berjalan dengan baik dan mampu meningkatkan kemampuan berpikir kritis dan kreatif pada mahasiswa. Mahasiswa mampu mengeksplorasi penyebab masalah, serta mampu merumuskan masalah nyata dan penting di bidang bisnis dan pendidikan dan kemudian menawarkan solusi untuk masalah tersebut (Yaman & Arici-Ozcan, 2021). Mahasiswa dapat bekerja sama dalam memecahkan masalah dengan anggota kelompoknya masing-masing.…”